Your Guide to Cinemalaya 2016 ft. Short Films

Your Guide to Cinemalaya 2016 ft. Short Films

Last week, we made a guide for the full-length entries in this year’s Cinemalaya. Now, it’s time for the 10 shorts films competing to take center stage. Again, included in this list are the synopses and teaser trailers, as well as the directors and writers of each film.

 

ANG MAANGAS, ANG MARIKIT AT ANG MAKATA

Ang Maangas, ang Marikit at ang Makata (The Cool, the Fool, and the Lovely) is a one-act play for film about the characters meeting on an ordinary day.  Alfonso, a warrior from the Other Side goes to town in search of the Captain for a payment that is owed to him.  He arrived at the house seeing Liwliw, the Captain’s daughter practicing her dance.  Complications arise when Delfin, a passionate poet, serenades the young lady.

Writer/Director: Ibarra Guballa

 

BUGTAW

Arman and Leo, two young boys and best friends living in the province, share a common past-time: writing down any dreams that they have and discussing them together for no reason at all.  On his way to their next meeting, however, Arman realizes that he is being followed by someone who might be haunting the dreams he refuses to reveal.

Writer/Director: Noah del Rosario

 

 

MANSYONG PAPEL

Linda, in her 70s, is a Chinese citizen who has been living in the Philippines since the Japanese occupation of their homeland.  For a while, it was like she was building the perfect Chinese Family raising three children together with her Husband, Felipe, and a business tycoon who worked hard to increase their wealth to millions.  A mysterious phone call from the unknown shaken their home that leads to their bankruptcy.  Tragically, Felipe went in come for 7 years and left Linda devastated.  She tries to keep her family together until a revelation totally broke their home apart.

Writer/Director: Ogos Aznar

 

 

NAKAUWI NA

After years of separation and longing; Ramon visits Doroteo, his brother, hoping to make up for the lost time that they could have spent with each other.

Writers/Directors: Patrick Baleros / John Relano / Luis Hidalgo

 

 

PEKTUS

Pektus tells the story of a day in the lives of two men in the city -both proud, indifferent, and bound by the confines of their milieu and their choices in life- and their incidental yet preordained meeting in a one-way alley that would change their lives thereafter. Raising questions of how far people have control over what happens in their lives, the film seeks to explore circumstance versus choice, breaking points, and second chances.

Writer/Director: Isabel Quesada

 
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ANG HAPON NI NANDING (NANDING’S AFTERNOON)

An introverted middle-aged man finds a wonderful distraction to his otherwise dull, late afternoons by the farm.

Writer/Director: Rommel Tolentino

 

BUTAS

Is a story of a Woman Miner from the Mountains of Benguet,  who struggles to balance life as a miner and a single parent. Butas will take you to a journey in the life of a mother who is struggling to make ends meet but is hopeful of being able to provide a better life for her son. Due to poverty in her native land she was forced to  work in a foreign country but comes back to the Philippines to take care of her son after the husband died from a mining accident.

Writer/Director: Richard Cawed

 

FISH OUT OF WATER

Fish Out Of Water tells the story of Min-jae, a Korean-Filipino teenager, who is often discriminated against for being mixed-blood.  His utmost desire to belong to the homogeneous and hierarchical Korean society is tested when his single Filipina mother decides to send him to the Philippines one winter day.

Writer/Director: Mon A.L. Garilao

 

GET CERTIFIED

In the afterlife, the lost souls are given the opportunity to resurrect to someone else’s body to decide which path they will be taking after, Heaven or Hell.  On her fortieth day, Angelica believes that her calling is to become a full-fledged Demon…but will she get certified?

Writer/Director: Isaias Herrera Zantua

 

 

FOREVER NATIN (OUR FOREVER)

A lesbian couple, Pat and Karen, know fully well that their relationship won’t last for good. So they decide to draft a contract binding them together for a limited period of time, which starts out as a monthly contract, then becomes yearly, until they are together for 7 years. On their 7th anniversary, Pat makes a plan to surprise for Karen.

Director: Cyrus Valdez
Writer: Clarence Espiritu

 

That’s all, folks. See you at the cinemas!

Oh, and you know the drill. Check out Cinemalaya’s official website and Facebook for more details about the festival and the films.

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