It takes her an hour for a return trip. Poligon is a rice farmer, mother of two, and an Ifugao, indigenous mountain people that live in the Philippines in the north of Luzon island.

The film follows the story of Dao-ayen, a member of the Philippines’ Special Action Force (SAF), from the Ifugao tribe in northern Luzon.

Motherland, by veteran Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF).. Mendoza told Deadline about his motivation to make Motherland ...

For 2,000 years the mountains of Ifugao province in the Philippines have been carefully cultivated with a seemingly endless series of terraced fields that climb thousands of feet. The Ifugao Rice ...

The film follows the story of Dao-ayen, a member of the Philippines’ Special Action Force (SAF), from the Ifugao tribe in northern Luzon. Dao-ayen was part of the 2015 Mamasapano raid that ...