Drama · Thriller · Western Visayas
Hacienda
The cane is high. So is the debt.
- 2026
- 19 min
- Hiligaynon
- Subtitles: English, Filipino
A sugarcane worker's son is offered the land his family has cut for a century.
The story
On a Negros hacienda at the end of milling season, the owner offers the son of his oldest worker a piece of the land, with one condition the boy cannot tell his father.
Credits
- Director
- Lara Chua
- Writer
- Lara Chua
- Cinematography
- Enzo Pascual
- Editor
- Cielo Garcia
- Music
- Vince Villareal
- Cast
- Bianca Esguerra, Sam Salazar, Ina Torres
Details
- Runtime
- 19 minutes
- Rating
- 16+
- Language
- Hiligaynon
- Subtitles
- English, Filipino
- Made in
- Western Visayas
- Released
- September 4, 2026
The filmmaker
Lara ChuaDirector, Writer · Bacolod, Western Visayas · making films since 2014Lara makes thrillers about family, land, and inheritance, mostly set in Negros, where she grew up between the cane fields and the city.Part of
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