Joseph Israel Laban

It is inspired by a news report about a nine-year-old girl who was made pregnant by her father and became the youngest child-mother on record in the Philippines. The film presents itself as fiction, and it certainly uses the devices of fiction when it reaches for its psychological insights into the thoughts and deeds of the girl's parents, but the sense that we're close to uncomfortable truths runs like a steady back-beat throughout. (Tony Rayns)

After a particularly strong squall, a sleepy fishing village on a tiny island in Southern Tagalog wakes up to an astonishing sight - their sea has turned red. Floating on their waters are thousands of apples. No one knows where they came from. Some suspect this is a bad omen from the baconaua - a creature of myth. Few believe it to be a miracle from heaven, while others fear a more sinister source. (imdb)