The second part of our Cinemalaya 2023 episode is here! This time we’re putting the focus on the other five films that we and our
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Cinemalaya 2023 Round Up! (Part 2)
Cinemalaya 2023 films are in for special screenings across the country through FDCP’s Cinematheques. Check out the schedule for your local cinematheque here. As If
QCinema Best Picture “Cleaners” to have UP screenings
Fresh from its win at last year’s QCinema International Film Festival, Cleaners is set to be shown on March at two campuses of the University of the
Episode 44 – Thop Nazareno (Edward)
Thop Nazareno’s second feature length film, Edward, is debuting in local cinemas this week! We think this is one of Cinemalaya 2019’s best films. For
Respeto: The Futility of Resignation
Warning: Full spoilers below. There’s a mislead inherent to Treb Monterras II’s Respeto. By its sheer inclusion of the rap battle subculture — one whose
Kiko Boksingero
Family dramas often have the dire need to verbalize emotions via heavy-handed dramatic confrontations. Thop Nazareno‘s coming-of-age drama Kiko Boksingero spares its audience of this
10 Cinemalaya Films You Can Stream Now on iFlix
I’m quite certain there’s such a thing as a “festival hangover”, the frisson that is watching new films buoyed by the steady stream of tweets
Must-Reads of the Week: August 9 – August 15
Cinemalaya, Locarno and several tributes on this weeks’ essential reads in World Cinema! … The Guardian’s Ashley Clark looks back about the film ‘Dangerous Minds’
Pusong Bato
When you are told that the premise of the film you are about to watch revolves around a has-been starlet who falls in love with
Sanctissima
Sanctissima is easily the best amongst the the other short films it screened alongside with, as part of Cinemalaya’s Shorts A block. This is not
Must-reads of the week: July 12 – July 18
‘Clueless’, ‘Wild Tales’, Joshua Oppenheimer and more in this week’s film highlights! … Indiewire’s Carlos Aguilar and his 7 reasons on Roy Andersson’s latest film
Cinemalaya 2015 announces its ten short features
From more than a hundred entries, the Cinemalaya Foundation selects ten promising entries for the Short Film category of the 2015 Cinemalaya Independent Film Competition.
We Need Votes! Help Make Filipino Horror Film ‘The Disturbed’ Happen!
Tyrone “Ty” Acierto, the acclaimed director of MMFF New Breed-sleeper The Grave Bandits, is trying to make his new horror film The Disturbed happen thru an online film-funding program
Ang Katiwala
Meant — rather explicitly — as a propaganda for the late President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Manuel L. Quezon, Aloy Adlawan’s Ang Katiwala (The
Nora Aunor on Cinemalaya Posting Films on YouTube: “I think it’s like stealing.”
As predicted, the Awards Night for Philippine independent film festival Cinemalaya was, to sum up in two terms, very awkward. Winning Best Actress for Joel
1st Ko Si 3rd
In Real S. Florido’s 1st Ko si 3rd time plays two roles: one that creates a void and another that fills it. The case of
Previous Cinemalaya Entries ‘Mistakenly’ Uploaded to YouTube
A YouTube account — belonging to one Janssen Agbada, a ‘technical personnel’ of Cinemalaya — had been host to ‘mistakenly’ uploaded videos of full-length, previous
Children’s Show
Only a few frames from completely wallowing in its relentless, almost-stifling realism, director Roderick Cabrido’s debut feature Children’s Show swivels to the truly weird and
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Gino M. Santos’s follow-up to his exuberant if shrouded debut The Animals is set once again within a circle of upper-class, party-‘till-drop youth (here, a quartet
K’na, the Dreamweaver
“When Kana, a young T’boli woman, becomes a dreamweaver, she has the chance to weave together her village’s warring clans. But, will she give up true love to do so?”
