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21st Century Cinema

For My Alien Friend

1h 13m

Directed by Jet Leyco • 2019 • Philippines

A lone stranger broadcasts fragments of life he has witnessed on Earth to an extraterrestrial friend, hoping to make a connection across space and time and to communicate the human experience to other beings. Spanning the cosmic and the comical, Jet Leyco’s ecstatically experimental, synapse-rewiring audiovisual collage brings together artifacts of the first Filipinos, a family, political upheaval, and the existence/non-existence of God.

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