The year is 2034 in Manila and following a series of massive volcanic eruptions in the Celebes Sea, Southeast Asia has literally gone dark. As a result of this, madmen control countries and new bubble cities have arisen as a result of the region’s apocalyptic state. As rebel forces rally against their maniacal and despotic ruler who is grasping at his chance to turn the Philippines into an oppressive dystopia, cataclysmic epidemics now also ravage the continent with millions dead. The countryside is swept up in widespread trauma, but academic Doctor Hadoro is writing a book named ‘A Nation of Forgetting’ that makes the case for cultural remembrance so that humanity can prevent itself from replication the wrongdoings of the past.
The Halt (Ang Hupa)
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The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.