Synopsis
Ka Yanan, a member of the revolutionary armed movement, recently died during an encounter with government troops, and is survived by a son and two daughters. In Yanan, the filmmaker shows how the revolutionary’s children, grown into young adulthood, cope with their grief and pay homage to their departed parent. As they ponder their memories of their mother and the cause to which she pledged her life, they find among her possessions poems, letters, and recordings. Kept away for 15 years, the materials reveal aspects of Ka Yanan’s struggles that her children had previously not fully grasped.
Rewards, festivals and diffusions
Bangkok Asean Film Festival
Cinemalaya
Mae Urtal Caralde
Teacher
She was born in Southern Leyte, Philippines in 1975. Mae Urtal Caralde gained her foundations in the arts from her years of study in Philippine High School for the Arts of the National Arts Center in Los Baños, Laguna where she majored Visual Arts. Then, she entered the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where she earned her BFA in Visual Communication. Consequently, she obtained her MA Media Studies major in Film at the UP College of Mass Communication. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Media Studies candidate at the same university.
Mae Caralde has been teaching Fine Arts and Mass Communication subjects in several schools and universities in Manila. Currently she is a full time faculty at the Mapua Institute of Technology, Intramuros, Manila.



