Kidlat Tahimik, the great Filipino director, will be at SFU Woodwards to give a special preview of his newest film, "Balikbayan #1" aka "Memories of Overdevelopment III Redux," recent winner of the Caligari Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The film is a labour of love made over more than 3 decades. A vast and rich and intellectually dazzling film, it tells the story of Enrique of Malacca, Magellan’s slave and arguably the first person to ever circumnavigate the globe. “In the film, Enrique (played by the director himself) does not appear as the object of European exploitation, but rather as a kind of shrewd cosmopolitan from the Global South. Kidlat Tahimik began working on his film about Enrique in 1979, but for personal reasons never completed it. Not until more than three decades later has he now been able to finish it, almost without a budget—partly thanks to new developments in media technology (some of the new footage was shot with an iPhone)” (Tilman Baumgartel). Giovanni Marchini Camia stated in Filmmaker: “A sui generis historical epic, the film freely mixes genres, integrates a variety of formats, and features a carousel of actors spanning three generations—it may very well be Tahimik’s magnum opus.”