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Rice Engine
Harvest day, rewritten.
- 2026
- 12 min
- Ilocano
- Subtitles: English, Filipino
An Ilocos farmer challenges a harvesting robot to one season.
The story
When the co-op leases a harvesting robot, a seventy-year-old farmer in Ilocos Norte bets it cannot read the weather the way his knees can. The season will decide.
Credits
- Director
- Lea Agbayani
- Writer
- Lea Agbayani
- Cinematography
- Weng Lacson
- Editor
- Rafa Dizon
- Music
- Toni Del Rosario
- Cast
- Carlo Padilla, Rey Villareal, Joaquin Rivera
Details
- Runtime
- 12 minutes
- Rating
- PG
- Language
- Ilocano
- Subtitles
- English, Filipino
- Made in
- Ilocos
- Premieres
- October 25, 2026
The filmmaker
Lea AgbayaniDirector, Writer · Laoag, Ilocos · making films since 2017Lea writes in Ilocano first and translates later. Her films are about farmers, grandmothers, and people who come home.
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