The film FOSTER CHILD is being shown at the UP Film Institute this week and Cinemanila Film Fest in Gateway Cubao next week with other indie films. What caught my attention is that the story strike through me as I did belong to a foster family that cared for children awaiting for their adoptive parents under the NorFil foundation for almost 9 years. My late mother, Sonia, loved to care for children that we siblings were all grown up but too young to have our own family, hence being a foster family. Foster Child got a 5-minute standing ovation in Cannes Film Fest last May.
Foster Child (2007)
A Seiko Films presentation of a CenterStage Prods. production.
Producer: Robbie Tan
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Screenplay: Ralston Jover
Synopsis:
Thelma (Cherry Pie Picache), together with her husband Dado (Dan Alvaro) and teenage sons Gerald (Alwyn Uytingco) and Yuri (Jiro Manio), are an urban poor family hired by a local foster care facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption. The inevitable separation is heart-rending for the foster family.
Thelma's foster child John-John (Kier Segundo) is to be turned over to his adoptive American parents. Every moment with the 3-year-old John-John becomes more precious as Thelma goes through the day fulfilling her motherly duties for the last time—bathing John-John, feeding him, and bringing him to school where the boy participates in a school presentation.
Accompanied by the social worker Bianca (Eugene Domingo), Thelma and her son Yuri deliver John-John to the posh hotel where the elderly American couple are billeted. The bittersweet turnover, underscored by the luxury of the place, delivers the painful truth that love and life are not equal.
The realization hits Thelma and Yuri as they leave the hotel.
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