Film

Barkada

Director

Ayce Mangapit

Culture isn't something you prove.

After his mother's death, Filipino-American college freshman Angelo Panganiban sets out to reconnect with a culture he never fully understood. Along with his best friend Jade, he joins the campus Filipinx Cultural Festival committee, where Mika, its fiercely proud event chair, questions whether they're "Filipino enough." As the festival nears, Angelo has to balance new friendships, a growing rift with his grieving father, and his own search for identity