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Kristine Aquino, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

DreamWorks’ Forgotten Island is a joyous, painful love letter to the Filipino diaspora

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It is fitting that DreamWorks’ Forgotten Island carries a title that evokes memory and loss. The film, released globally in September, is on the surface a coming-of-age adventure about friendship.

Look a little closer and it is a poignant meditation on separation, a theme that speaks deeply to the Philippines and its diaspora, whose culture for the first time takes centre stage in a major Hollywood animation.

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