IDFA Bertha Fund
Magnetic Letters
Demie Dangla
Philippines
Funded in
2025
Grant
Classic: Production & postproduction
Amount
€25,000
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Logline
Now in my 30s, I look for the memories of my absent father by recovering private cassette tape recordings by migrant Filipino workers and their families from the late 1980s and 1990s, revealing the invisible cost of labor migration.
This project received funding in: 2025
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Project Information
Countries of Production
Philippines
Countries of co‑production
Germany, France
Current production status
In production
Estimated Length
75 min
Credits
Director
Demie Dangla
Demie Dangla
Production
Gale Osorio for Cinema Archipelago
Gale Osorio for Cinema Archipelago
Co-production
Philippe Djivas for Dynamo Production,
Laura Kloeckner for Seera Films
Philippe Djivas for Dynamo Production,
Laura Kloeckner for Seera Films
