Teng Mangansakan’s first full-length feature film, “Limbunan”   will be shown on July 10, 2010, 6:15pm at Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Set in 1989, the film captures the ritual motions of the women in a family preparing for the wedding of 16-year-old Ayesah who has been betrothed to a man she barely knows. As Maguindanaon tradition dictates, she will be kept from public view in her private quarters –limbunan— where she will be prepared, readied, and pampered for her wedding.
As preparations for her union is underway, Ayesah is reunited with her childhood tutor Maguid who returns to the village as a militiaman after an absence of five years, reawakening Ayesah’s past memory of childhood infatuation.

Throughout Ayesah’s confinement her precocious and rebellious eight-year-old sister Saripa becomes her eyes to the world beyond her room. Her mother Amina keeps her composure despite the fact her husband sleeps with his second wife half of the time, finding solace in the belief that it is both her religious and familial duty to be an obedient wife.

Ayesah’s aunt Farida is tasked to ensure that she is prepared for the wedding. However, Farida’s dark past challenges Ayesah’s resolve finding herself choosing between love and loyalty to tradition and family.

The film carries the relevant theme of women, culture and society.  It stars Tetchie Agbayani, Joem Bascon, Jea Lyka Cinco, Mayka Lintongan, Jamie Unte and Gus Miclat.

Tickets are sold at P150 each. For inquiries, please email morofilm@yahoo.com. Free delivery in Quezon City, Mandaluyong, Makati and Pasig areas for 5 or more tickets.

Here’s the trailer: http://vimeo.com/12922674