Somewhere in Space (2025)

Native Title: Baka Doon sa Buwan
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Screenwriter & Director: Noah Tonga
Screenwriter: John Rogers
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama
Tags: Searching For A Parent , Student Female Lead , Teacher Female Lead , Provincial Setting , Jealous Female Lead , Abandonment Issues , Elementary School , Mother-Daughter Relationship , Student-Teacher Relationship (Vote tags)

Baka Doon sa Buwan ‧ Movie ‧ 2025

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Joy is an eight-year-old half-Filipina and half-African American who lives with her mentally unstable Filipina mother, Mercy in the province. Growing up with a cold relationship with her mother, her grandmother made her believe that her father had been absent because he was on the moon. With so much void in her early life, Joy grapples with her own identity. Joy finds out that her mother plans to leave for Manila to move on from the past without her and start a new. Joy pursues a "journey to the moon" to find her father, believing that being reunited with him will stop her mother from abandoning her. She does this with the help of a new teacher from her school, an American Peace Corps volunteer, Faith. Faith starts to act more like a mother to Joy, and Mercy starts to feel an unexpected maternal jealousy and loses the smallest amount of sanity left in her. (Source: Diorama International Film Festival) Edit Translation