DAGITAB

Sparks

Director & writer.

Feature-length film, 120 mins.
TEN17p.
2014.

Cinemalaya Film Festival - Best Director & Best Screenplay,
Singapore Southeast Asian Film Festival,
Asia Pacific Screen Awards - Best Screenplay Nominee.

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Producer: Hannah Espia
Cinematography: Rommel Sales
Production Design: Whammy Alcazaren & Thesa Tang
Film Editing: Benjamin Tolentino
Music: Mon Espia
Sound Design: Mikko Quizon
Assistant Director: Chad Angelic Cabigon
Line Producer: Jono de Rivera
Production Management: Regina Valenzuela
Supervising Producers: Krisma Maclang Fajardo, Marie Pineda, Jamie delos Angeles
Cast: Eula Valdes, Nonie Buencamino, Martin del Rosario
Sandino Martin, Max Eigenmann, Ronnie Lazaro,
Frances Makil-Ignacio, Roli Inocencio

selected reviews

on SCREEN ANARCHY:

Giancarlo Abrahan’s confidently mounted debut has poets and lovers floating aimlessly in an inert world of their own doing. The past and the present intersect. The imagined and the real merge. Subtle tragedy ensues. It is all beautiful stuff, ideas masterfully realized by a director with a clear view of what he wants his film to become.

from Best of 2014: Top 15 Filipino films
Oggs Cruz

on RAPPLER:

Zig:

It is the smallest, most mundane moments that are often the most forgettable. But in Dagitab, first time director Giancarlo Abraham distills those moments into a resonant and moving reflection on love and regret. Shaped by Abrahan’s superb screenplay and exemplary cast, Dagitab’s ultimate triumph is that its largeness is not in its spectacle but in its sincerity.

Oggs:

There is some humor in how Abrahan has crafted a tale about writers, or basically people who are in the profession of expressing themselves, who are unable to express themselves properly with each other. The characters in Dagitab are all these flawed and misfortuned loners struggling to connect amidst their mistakes in the past. It is undoubtedly a very mature work, which can only lead you to expect more from young Abrahan.

from 20 great PH movies of 2014
Oggs Cruz and Zig Marasigan

on THE PHILIPPINE STAR:

What “Dagitab” mines isn’t exactly the circumstances that lead to the dissolution of a marriage, but the alienation that swallows it whole…

“Dagitab” is lovingly steeped in its literary bearings, taking its sweet time as it unveils the great perhaps that its characters constantly pursue; the resulting work is a complicated but immersive look into heartbreaks and little tragedies that make up our own fractured remembrances.

from Cinemalaya 2014: The good, the bad, the melodrama
Don Jaucian

on CLICK THE CITY:

Dagitab works differently. It shirks histrionics at every turn, sticking instead to
the steady rhythms of a couple that’s been together for long enough to know that everything just passes. The film seems to actively avoid what one would recognize as big scenes. It instead gets painfully intimate, sharing these quiet little private moments that bear the honesty that can only exist between two people that truly understand each other…

In its stillness, Dagitab often finds something transcendent: some profound truths about life that aren’t always served well by standard drama.

from Cinemalaya X, Part Two
Philbert Dy