Jungle Love

Jungle Love follows a handful of people who have disappeared into the jungle a woman who has kidnapped her sisters child an urbane couple and their indigenous guide a bored and horny platoon and a nameless tribe Disappearance has another meaning in Sanchezs native Mindanao where a decadesold conflict between the government and secessionists fighting for an Islamic state has made the region infamous for its kidnappings Sanchez took inspiration from an incident in which a friend living abroad visited an exhibition and found a photo of him labeled as one of the disappeared Jungle Love is permeated with this sense of the uncanny as narratives and identities fracture and fuse into one another in the reckless lonely places people go to escape themselves