12 wins & 20 nominations
- 2018 Winner FAMAS Award
- Best Picture
With fever dream grandeur and dystopian playfulness, it re-imagines what is an often neglected swatch of our colonial history, as a hallucinatory exodus seen through the eyes of two child refugees. - 2018 Nominee FAMAS Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Directing
For allowing the audience to see the wastage of war through the playful but fragile perspective of innocent children, creating a powerful parable of how humanity in the time of crisis is capable of both destruction and salvation. - 2018 Nominee FAMAS Award
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
In Balangiga: Howling Wilderness, Justine Samson takes full control of a physically and emotionally demanding role, transforming his fear and weakness into courage, determination, and authenticity. - 2018 Winner FAMAS Award
- Best Original Screenplay
Portrays a bold and daring metafictive imagination that draws upon the poetic and visceral resources of cinema to decry historical and social injustice, lament human tragedy, and memorialize Filipino resilience. - 2018 Winner FAMAS Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
For turning the wilderness of the Philippines into both a war zone of evident strife and a playground for its young protagonists to survive with only the strands of innocence that are remaining.
- 2018 Winner Gawad Urian Award
- Best Picture (Pinakamahusay na Pelikula)
- 2017 Winner Pylon Award
- Best Picture - Circle Competition
For its solid vision, with sensitive performances paired with strong visual, aural and poetic narrative, it is an elegy to the tragic history of the Philippines as seen through the eyes of a boy that is both a celebration and a lamentation of humanity.
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