Lav Diaz’s eight film to join one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Phantosmia is an official out-of-competition entry in the upcoming La Biennale di Venezia. Officially announced yesterday as one of the films to join the out-of-competition entry in the upcoming Venice Film Festival, ‘Phantosmia’ stars Janine
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Poor Things (2023) review: Unfolding the catharsis in self-discovery, pleasure, and choice
Poor Things (2023) is the official opening film of QCinema 2023.
QCinema 2023 Restored Classics Section Unveiled
While QCinema is dedicated to screening the newest and most exciting films of the year, the festival also believes that there is room in the lineup for an appreciation of what has come before. So every year, the festival picks some of his favorite classic films, particularly ones that have
QCinema Launches Elevated Documentary Section
For its 11th edition, QCinema introduces QCDox, the official documentary program of the QCinema International Film Festival. Though the festival has exhibited documentaries before, QCDox is a stronger commitment to bringing more attention to the possibilities of the form. In line with this, QCinema has put together a lineup of
Emerging Talents Shine: QCinema Unwraps the 2023 Asian Next Wave Competitors
QCinema International Film Festival announces the titles competing in this year’s Asian Next Wave Competition — its premiere launching pad for Asia’s most promising filmmakers. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas as QCinema announces this year’s Asian Next Wave competitors. All eight feature film directorial debuts vie for
Marupok AF review: Twisted truths and tangled tales
Don’t be fooled by the rambunctious laughter and collective groan Marupok AF (Where is the Lie?) produced when it kickstarted Cinemalaya 19 at the Philippine International Convention Center last Friday, August 4. Quark Henares’ latest project, an adaptation of the unbelievably crazy and scandalous viral Twitter thread in 2020, knows
in10city! QCinema’s 2022 Edition is Guaranteed Intense
in10city, QCinema International Film Festival’s 10th edition, powers up 2022 with another impressive lineup which includes films sourced from the most prestigious festival from all around the world. Bookending the festival is the much-awaited screening of two acclaimed European films with notable performances by Filipino thespians. The Palme d’Or-winning class
Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s GENSAN PUNCH is nominated for the Kim Jiseok award
A brand-new HBO Asia Original film GENSAN PUNCH will have its world premiere in “A Window on Asian Cinema” section (Competition) at the upcoming 26th edition of Busan International Film Festival, before premiering exclusively on HBO GO and HBO in the next few months. The Filipino-Japanese title in English, Japanese
‘BINH’ wins this year’s SeaShorts Best Film
We’re certainly happy to be invited to this year’s SeaShorts Film Festival, as it allowed us to explore films from the Southeast Asian region. As concluded on Thursday, closing nine days’ worth of masterclasses, workshops, and film screenings that celebrated Southeast Asian filmmakers and cinema. Earning the festival’s main honor,
QCinema launches A New Filmscape: a hybrid film festival from November 27 to December 6
QCinema International Film Festival stages a hybrid festival with an edgy line-up for its special edition for 2020. Today officially marks the first year since the coronavirus, or COVID-19 was mentioned as a highly-contagious disease. Albeit disregarded by the whole world, we now foresee different ways of living our lives.
What to expect in this year’s QCinema International Film Festival
This year’s QCinema is slated to run from November 27 to December 6, 2020 and it is fully online. The shift to the new normal begins for QCinema International Film Festival. Regarded as one of the leading international film festivals in Southeast Asia, QCinema is the flagship project of Quezon
Daang Dokyu conducts Masterclass in Documentary Filmmaking
Daang Dokyu launches a Masterclass in Documentary Filmmaking from the country’s prolific historians, journalists, and filmmakers for free. This article is a press release from Daang Dokyu. Visit their Facebook page and Youtube site to sign up. Want to learn documentary filmmaking from Alyx Arumpac, director of the much-acclaimed film
This chilling Tokyo IFF trailer for Antoinette Jadaone’s “Fan Girl” is all you need to watch today
With Charlie Dizon as the obssessed Fan Girl alongside Paolo Avelino, who might be playing as himself. It was just last month when we heard news that this co-production between BlackSheep, Project 8 cor. San Juan, Globe Studios , Crossword Productions, and Epicmedia — just some of the best film
PELÍCULA EXPANDING – Spanish Film Festival 2020 goes online
This will be the first time in 19 years that the Instituto Cervantes holds the Spanish film festival online, due of course to the pandemic. From October 3 to 11, 2020, the 19th edition of PELÍCULA–Spanish Film Festival 2020 will feature the best of contemporary Spanish cinema. Presented by Instituto Cervantes
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 Philippines. The debut film from director Glenn Barit, who has been known in the local film scene for making cinematic works that play with form
Cinema One Originals 2019 Review: Bulaklak sa City Jail (Restored Version)
Mario O’ Hara is a prolific character in the foundation of our nation’s own cinematic identity. His prominence goes without question as his oeuvre gave birth to some of the best films of the 70’s and the 80’s, all of which lay bare the harrowing truths of the everyday Filipino
‘Cleaners’ wins Top Prize in QCinema 2019, and more from the festival
In what many audiences deem as one of the best QCinema edition by far, Cleaners is undoubtedly one of the best films to come out of the main competition, and one of the best debut films of newcomer filmmaker Glenn Barit, with his innovative technique of photocopied stills which are then manually colored
QCinema 2019: QCShorts Competition dominates the main and micro cinemas
QCinema celebrates the city’s 80th founding with amass of Filipino Filmmakers and a foray of talents in this year’s QCShorts Competition. So far so good, the short films offer a view on the mundane to the minute. In this brief article, we’ve gathered the synopsis for you along with some stills
These are the three documentaries to screen in QCinema 2019
QCinema is home to some of the finest independent-produced films in the country. They’ve just announced the three documentary films to receive post-production grant of P500,000 each, while retaining exclusive rights to their films. A move considered a breakthrough in most film festival circuits in the country. Jet Leyco’s For My
Festival Report: Notes on Sinag Maynila Film Festival 2019
Before we kick off towards a new film festival (QCinema??? PPP??? Cinemalaya??? CinemaOne Originals!??), we’d like to give a shout out to the last one we’ve been to. We even had a video version of our usual podcast route, courtesy of Contagious Inc. and perhaps this would open more episodes like
5 Things We Know About This Year’s Sinag Maynila
SINAG MAYNILA was born in 2015, with the vision of Mr. Wilson Cheng and award-winning filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s aspiration to help local indie filmmakers, it is now back with a variety of films from documentaries to full-length features which aim to educate festival-goers locally and internationally with it’s tagline Sine
Cinema One Originals 2018 Festival Guide
Cinema One Originals 2018 is just a few days away. This year, with the theme “I Am Original”, the long-running fest is slated to serve nine new feature films, twelve shorts, and premieres for the restored versions of two of the most iconic movies in Philippine history. || Related: Cinema One
QCinema 2018 gives homage to french cinema classics
[Editor’s note: This is a press release from QCinema.] The QCinema International Film Festival pays tribute to French cinema’s richness by highlighting classic titles for the Filipino cinephile. The sixth edition of QCinema casts a spell with Diabolique, And God Created Woman, and Five and the Skin. All films were all
QCinema 2018 unleashes Asian Next Wave competition entries
[Editor’s note: This is a press release from QCinema] A new breed of Asian filmmakers emerges in the third edition of the Asian Next Wave (ANW), a section of the coming QCinema International Film Festival (QCinema). All works are of promising Asian directors who have less than three feature films
QCinema 2018 reveals colorful line-up of LGBT Films for RainbowQC
W[Editor’s Note: this is a press release from QCinema] QCinema International Film Festival (QCinema) gives visibility to noteworthy cinematic craftsmanship with a wide array of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) films from across the globe. Co-presented by The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), RainbowQC presents a stellar lineup of
