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Cangrejos

Narrative Feature

Co-written and Directed by Zurich Chan  


Espie, an ambitious teenage girl, wants to escape
her controlling island village to pursue a better life in the city
only to find herself in a self-destructive path of violence
— featuring a kikik, a dead baby, and lots and lots of crabs.

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“The quirky black comedy provides a gripping and engrossing way of looking at the dark side of a close knit community and culture. Absurd, funny, and enlightening as it deals with the subject of poverty and violence against the unsettling backdrop of a beautiful island. It impressively deconstructs the human psyche of its characters when faced with hopelessness and desperation with crabs as its central metaphor, animals who pull down and claw at each other until in the end, nobody gets out alive.”

Sovolab Co-production award citation at Souther Voices Film Lab