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UPDATE 2: From Teatrino: “Due to logistical issues, MAGKAKABAUNG will NOT be shown this Saturday at Teatrino. It will be replaced by QCinema 2015 Best Picture APOCALYPSE CHILD.”
UPDATE: The final selections for the 4:30 screenings have now arrived. You can find them after the jump.
Admit it, catching indie movies is no easy task. It takes time, effort, and just an over-all flexibility in schedule — umm, basically things we do not have nowadays.
Luckily, Teatrino season is upon us. Long lauded for its repeat screenings of indie cinema’s audience favorites, The Teatrino Film Series (TFS) will be returning this November 28, December 12, and December 19 at the Teatrino @ Promenade, Greenhills.
From the confirmed line-up, one could see that this season’s selection is a mix of relatively old (emphasis on “relatively”) and new — from past darlings like Alagwa and Transit to more recent festival picks like Patintero: Ang Alamat ni Meng Patalo and Above the Clouds. All in all, audiences can be rest assured that they may not have to wait too long to catch up on the movies they may have missed.
Without further ado, here’s the list of the movies and their respective synopses and trailers for this quarter’s TFS:
November 28
4:30 pm
WINNER: Sana Dati
“The film is a love story about a woman whose wedding is thrown into disarray when a mysterious person arrives and reminds her of the man she really loves. It is the third part of Tarog’s Camera Trilogy after CONFESSIONAL (Cinema One Originals 2007) and MANGATYANAN (Cinemalaya 2009).”
RUNNERS-UP:
Ang Nawawala
“Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child.
Now twenty years old, he is back in Manila for Christmas. While always festive in the Philippines, for his family it is tinged with sadness, marking the anniversary of his twin brother’s death. Against the backdrop of the vibrant local music scene, his childhood best friend tries to reconnect with him, while he unexpectedly finds a chance at his first, real romantic relationship.
Gibson reconsiders and redefines his relationship with his family, with himself, even with his dead brother: the only person he talks to.”
Barber’s Tales
“In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation.”
Shift
“ESTELA is a tomboyish, young woman caught in the crisis of her quarter-life. After graduating college with a degree in sociology, her life path has led her away from her dreams of being a singer-songwriter and into the call center industry where she has been trapped since. Unmotivated and always late for work, an openly gay senior agent, TREVOR, is assigned to help guide her back on the right track. As they grow closer, Estela begins to develop romantic feelings for him creating a complicated, unconventional relationship between them. When Trevor breaks up with his boyfriend and begins to question his own wants, Estela is caught in a dilemma on whether or not to act on her hidden feelings.”
7:00 pm
Lorna
“LORNA is a film about a 60 yr old woman who is constantly searching for the right one after failed relationships. A story of being alone & growing old.”
9:30 pm
Above the Clouds
“After losing his parents in a flood, 15-year-old Andy is forced to live in the Mountain Province with his estranged grandfather. Feeling they’ve lost everything, the two embark on a journey and start to come to terms with their grief.”
December 12
4:30 pm
WINNER: Senior Year
“SENIOR YEAR is a glimpse into the lives of ten students at St. Frederick’s Academy as they struggle through the final months before graduation. Features a cast of real high school students.”
RUNNERS-UP:
Ang Nawawala (see above)
Barber’s Tales (see above)
Bwakaw
“An ornery old retiree — who only came to terms with his homosexuality tragically late in life — leads an isolated existence with only his faithful dog for company, until a chance encounter offers him a final chance for happiness.”
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7:00 pm
Sleepless
“An offbeat rom-com about two insomniacs, it charts how they start to bond while the rest of the world sleeps. Drawn together by their nocturnal loneliness, they talk about love, zombies and everything in between.”
9:30 pm
Alagwa
“An impoverished single parent, Robert Lim (Jericho Rosales) spends his free time with his young son Brian. One day he takes him to the penny mall for a treat. Turning his back just for a minute, he loses the little boy. Surveillance videos reveal the child being led away by an older man.
The father’s anguished search begins. When the police fail to locate his child, he plows through the back streets of Manila, unearthing the dark facets of human trafficking, determined to find his son at all costs.”
December 19
4:30 pm
WINNER: Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa
“A college student decides to stalk his professor after getting bad grades in literature class; he finds out that she works as a dance instructor at night. Soon, he joins her dance class in order to impress her.”
RUNNERS-UP:
Ang Huling Cha-Cha ni Anita
“A 12-year old Anita falls in love with the new woman in town; years later, a girlhood crush blossoms during the Fiesta of Santa Clara in Obando, Bulacan.”
Mariquina
“Mariquina tells the bittersweet story of Imelda Guevarra, a successful businesswoman, who grew up with an emotionally distant father, Romeo, a once recognized shoemaker who lost both his shoe factory and his beloved wife. When Imelda is informed about her father’s death, she tentatively proceeds with the funeral preparations. Her search for the last perfect pair of shoes serves as the catalyst that opens up old wounds. It also unlocks memories of growing up in awe at how her father could transform a sheet of leather into something perfect to wear on her feet, igniting recollections of why her mother, Leonor, left them.
The rise, fall and revival of shoemaking in Marikina, the footwear capital of the Philippines, are unraveled through the story of Imelda and Romeo. The father-daughter struggle illustrates the challenge of a nation trying to re-establish its identity. Eventually, Imelda takes that important step to confront the truths about herself and the father she must lay to rest. What she finds is far more valuable than a pair of shoes. She discovers her soul.”
Transit
“The film begins and ends in an airport during a father and son’s transit flight from Tel Aviv to Manila. It tells the story of Moises, a Filipino single-dad working as a caregiver in Herzliya, Israel, who comes home to his apartment in Tel Aviv to celebrate his son Joshua’s 4th birthday. Itwas on that day that Moises, together with their Filipino neighbors Janet, and her daughter Yael, find out that the Israeli government is going todeport children of foreign workers. Afraid of the new law, Moises and Janet decide to hide their children from the immigration police by making them stay inside the house.”
7:00 pm
Patintero: Ang Alamat ni Meng Patalo
A young neighborhood ‘patalo’ assembles an unlikely team of losers to join her in the ultimate battle for the streets: “patintero.”
9:30 pm
Apocalpyse Child
“What if all your life you were told that you are the son of the Francis Ford Coppola? This is the story of Ford, a surfing instructor who has been wasting his youth as his mother petitions the director to acknowledge his son. As another surfing season ends, he is forced to confront the myths surrounding his life.”
PREVIOUSLY: Magkakabaung
“MAGKAKABAUNG (The Coffin Maker) is the story of a neglectful father haunted by a mixture of guilt and remorse over the death of his eight year-old daughter. Eager to move on with his life, he finds it hard not only to have his daughter’s body buried, but also to bury his culpability as the person behind his daughter’s death.”
