by Genevieve L. Asenjo From https://filmfreeway.com/SaTaguangkansangDuta. Emmanuel Lerona’s adaptation of Alice Tan-Gonzales’ 2002 Palanca first prize Hiligaynon short story “Sa Taguangkan sang Duta” (“In the Womb of the Earth”) foregrounds time and place as a woman. And this could have been easily a nostalgia about a “glorious past,” even of a future that may never…

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