Completed - Drama - 110 minutes
Year of production : 2012 Director(s) : Brillante MENDOZA Writer(s) : Henry BURGOS Cast : Nora AUNOR, Bembol ROCO, Lovie POE, Mercedes CABRAL, Nurjay SAHALI Producer(s) : Brilliante MENDOZA (Centerstage Productions Inc.), Larry CASTILLO (Centerstage Productions Inc.)
SHALEHA SARAIL hails from a water-village in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, a seaweed-rich community in the southernmost province of the Philippines, sharing sea borders with the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos. Although an adoptive mother to her nephew, Shaleha has had three miscarriages. Her youth and fecundity all gone, she agonizes that now she will never bear a child. And deep down inside she knows that the ultimate desire of her husband BANGAS AN is to be a father. Believing that to fulfill her husband’s greatest wish of having a son is a tangible proof of Allah’s grace, Shaleha decides to march to a different drummer. She resolves to find the woman who will bear her husband a child. For days on end, she and Bangas An scour the nearby islands and floating-villages in search of the right fertile woman. But instead of finding her, it is they who are found by MERSILA, a girl who is also highly favored by their people. On the eve of her husband’s marriage to Mersila, however, a gnawing jealousy consumes Shaleha. Nevertheless, Shaleha is beguiled just as well by this girl’s charm, only to discover that part of the dowry for the marriage is that Bangas An would leave her, as soon as Mersila gives birth to his son. As a film, Thy Womb examines the opposing natures of two women (Shaleha’s sterility against Mersila’s fertility) to reflect the prevailing condition in Tawi-tawi: endowed with natural beauty and rich resources but mired in economic and sociopolitical crises.
Country(ies) : PHILIPPINES
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