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The first time I landed on the Philippine archipelago, I was an innocent young sailor with a red pompom on my head. Twenty years later, during a film festival, I was expelled from the country for daring to criticize the Marcos' regime. I had always wanted to go back to these islands, and in 2002, after shooting a French TV movie in which I played General Leclerc, I had the chance to film these Philippine sketches. I saw a country full of contrasts. I saw the garbage dumps, the canvas villages on Smoky Mountain, buried in the stench and the horror of deprived childhood. I met the Aetas in the ashes of the Mt. Pinotubo volcano, the Ifugaos who watch over the Rice Terraces, old Wanna awaiting death to put on her red dress. I filmed the swamped harbors, the sleepy lakeside villages at dusk, the attentive stares, the outstretched hands, the generosity, the smiles. I listened to local tales while eating rice fish on the Manila Metro. I traveled, full of curiosity, without compromises, my heart everywhere, my head nowhere, as Nicolas Bouvier once said.

France - 2003 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Bernard Giraudeau Camera Bernard Giraudeau Editing Michelle Hollander Music Osvaldo Torres

Production Les Films de la Saga, 36, rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5669 3300 Fax : +33 (0)1 4561 1338 Co-Production Yenan Production, Voyage with the  participation of France 5