The Aeta Agta, or Dumagat, are collective terms for several Filipino indigenous peoples who live in various parts of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. They are thought to be among the earliest inhabitants of the Philippines, preceding the Austronesian migrations. Aeta communities were historically nomadic hunter-gatherers, practices that they seem to retain even nowadays. Zig Dulay’s latest work, which is screening at Sine Halaga Film Festival, focuses on an Aeta boy who finds reality clashing with his dreams.

“Black Rainbow” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema

Itan, a 12-year-old boy wants to study and become a lawyer, also in order to read through all the documents the Aeta community had been receiving, and particularly one that forces them to give up ancestral lands up in the mountain to give way for mining. However, his father cannot spare him, since he needs him...