Ang Balikbayan

As the first native to circumnavigate the globe, Filipino slave Enrique returns to his native village enriched by the customs of the "Old World". This staged low-budget documentary, made over the course of more than 30 years using original footage and found fragments is an essay on colonialism and a celebration of the free spirit. "The genius of the indigenous culture is still within us. We just have to recognize it, and let it flow out." Kidlat Tahimik (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)