Cinema One Originals 2015 Screening Schedules

The promotional materials for this year’s Cinema One Originals Film Festival are always emblazoned with the phrase: kakaiba ka ba? An invitation, it seems, to embrace eccentricities.

The lineup they are pushing forward this year doesn’t veer away much from that slogan: films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Hou Hsiao-Hsien are playing under the fest’s “world cinema” category. If you’re still not a-buzzed by this, Miguel Gomez‘s highly-anticipated three-part masterpiece Arabian Nights is having its Philippine premiere during the festival. So there.

Films in competition is an odd bunch, too, which is almost always a good thing: a rotoscope animation drama by Carl Papa (Manang Biring), a period dramedy by Raymond Red (Mga Rebeldeng May Kaso); an occult horror by Sheron Dayoc (Bukod Kang Pinagpala); an offbeat family drama by Joel Ferrer (Baka Siguro Yata); and a Nick Joaquin docu-drama by Guerilla is a Poet-filmmaker Sari Dalena (Dahlin’ Nick).

Cinema One Originals runs from November 9 thru 17. Here are the screening schedules, followed by the films playing at the festival.

Films in Competition

Nine films compete at this year’s C1Origs, all make for an interesting and very much diverse lineup. The list of films follows. (Click on the film titles to like the films on Facebook).

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BAKA SIGURO YATA

Joel Ferrer‘s odd-ball dramedy spans three generations of love, which just means all sorts of laughs and pathos—the key word here being Ferrer.

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BUKOD KANG PINAGPALA

Bukod Kang Pinagpala is Sheron Dayoc‘s horror about the occult. It follows a woman (Bing Pemental) who wakes up miraculously after years of coma.

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THE COMEBACK

In The Comeback, Ivan Andrew Payawal tells the story of a has-been actress (Kaye Abad) who loses everything in her life and resorts to suicide.

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DAHLING NICK

Sari Dalena‘s docu-drama explores the life of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin who demanded an imprisoned writer be freed during the Marcos era.

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DAYANG ASU

Ricky Davao and Jun-jun Quintana star in a father-and-son action thriller, directed by Kapampangan filmmaker and actor Bor Ocampo.

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HAMOG

“A child’s play at the end of innocence,” is how director Ralston Jover describes his drama starring Zaijan Jaranilla and Teri Malvar as young peddlers.

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MANANG BIRING

Manang Biring is Carl Papa‘s dramedy about a feisty but terminally-ill old lady who has learned to accept her imminent demise.

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MISS BULALACAO

In Ara Chawdhury‘s new film, a drag princess gets pregnant following an alien abduction. Rumours of immaculate conception raise his status to cult leader.

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MGA REBELDENG MAY KASO

A youth drama film revolving on the aftermath of the 1986 People Power Revolution. A band of misfits immerse themselves in the culture of independent and alternative cinema.

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Short Film Exhibition

Cinema One Originals is hosting a slew of short films from the Philippines, New Zealand, and Iran, in commemorating revolutionary cinema (and the eventual birth of Filipino indies).

• Junilyn Has by Carlo Manatad
• Sanctissima by Kenneth Dagatan
• Dindo by Martika Ramirez Escobar
• Pusong Bato by Pam Miras
• Reyna Christina by Pia Dimagiba
• Memorya by Jovanni Tinapay
• Mabuhay ang Pilipinas by Bor Ocampo
• Anino by Raymond Red
• A Love Story by Steven Baker
• The Tenant by Mohsen Mahkmalbaf

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World Cinema

The foreign film program screens an incredible lineup of titles that—let me say it at the risk of being charged with lazy analogies—will wet the proverbial cinephile panties. Journey to the Shore, the new film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Arabian Nights, by Miguel Gomes, are among my main reasons to go. Yorgos Lanthimos‘ The Lobster, which makes something literal out of dating nightmares; Deniz Gamze Erguven‘s Mustang, a bleak, almost Grimm-like drama about female sexuality set in a remote Turkish town; and Hou Hsiao-Hsien‘s gorgeous The Assassin, which finds a female assailant who is tasked to kill a man with whom she shares a history, all make for an exciting festival itinerary.

Here is a complete list of the films, linked to their respective trailers so you can take a closer look.

• The Assassin by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan)
• Journey to the Shore by Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Japan)
• Right Now, Wrong Then by Hong Sang-Soo (South Korea)
• Interrogation by Vetri Maaran (India)
• The President by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Georgia/Iran)
• Arabian Nights by Miguel Gomes (Portugal)
• The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos (Ireland)
• Rams by Grimur Hakonarson (Iceland)
• The Treasure by Corneliu Porumboi (Romania)
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on its Existence by Roy Andersson (Sweden)
• Mustang by Deniz Gamze Erguven (France)

Restored Classics

Cinema One will also screen restorations of classic films such as Lino Brocka‘s Insiang and Marilou Diaz-Abaya‘s Karnal. The restoration of Ishmael Bernal‘s film Ikaw ay Akin will have its world premiere during the festival.

Special Presentation

A special screening of Sherad Sanchez‘s Salvage will be held during the festival. The film is a horror found-footage film following a reporter (Jessie Mendiola) lost in a haunted jungle. Erik Matti‘s much-awaited Honor Thy Father starring John Lloyd Cruz will open the film festival on November 8.