This is Engelbert Rafferty’s return to Film Police Reviews! He writes about Amanda Nell Eu’s directorial debut, ‘Tiger Stripes’. The film is also the recipient of the Pylon Award for Asian Next Wave Best Picture and Best Director in this year’s QCinema International Film Festival. The Philippines and Malaysia are
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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 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
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This ‘Joyland’ review examines the parallels of the characters living in a [societal] box
Joyland, as shown in the film, is an amusement park located in Lahore, Pakistan. It seems that anything is possible inside Joyland. The rides are thrilling, you can have fun, and freedom is alive and felt. But amusement parks are walled, and it requires payment to get in. Unfortunately in
Episode 143 – QCinema Previews
It’s time for some QCinema Reviews! John, Jim and Princess talk about two films that will be screening in the upcoming QCinema film festival. Notes: This episode contains spoilers. QCinema will be screening at various cinemas on Nov 18-26, 2022. Films Discussed: Corsage (Marie Kreutzer, 2022) Return to Seoul (Davy
QCinema 2021, a hybrid film festival from November 26 to December 6
QCinema has outdone us all again. With the pandemic far from over and cinemas still closed, QCinema International Film Festival jump cuts the challenges and proceeds again with a hybrid festival. In 2020, the festival pivoted to the new normal with a festival that featured socially distanced and by-invitation-only physical screenings coupled
Episode 124: QCinema Pre-festival Impressions
QCinema is coming back by the end of the month! Tristan, John, and guests Armando Dela Cruz and Jason Tan Liwag discuss what they expect from the upcoming short films in the festival’s competition section. QCinema is a hybrid festival with online and in-person screenings from November 26 to December 5,
Get Ready because MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT WORLD is streaming WORLDWIDE on UPSTREAM this Jan.29
Dodo Dayao’s second feature film ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’ is every bit seamless, sexy, and nightmarish a horror film should be, you’d need to watch this with a friend. Coming from its QCinema success, Dodo Dayao’s second film Midnight in a Perfect World streams for commercial viewing on Upstream.ph
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.
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
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
‘Oda sa Wala’: the morbid fragrance of emptiness
An unsettling portrait of death—of the body, and more so of the spirit.
Episode 12 – QCinema 2018 (with Oggs Cruz)
Rappler film critic Oggs Cruz joins the gang as they talk about the recently concluded QCinema International Film Festival. Young lovers, old lovers, basketball players, bird creatures and corpses abound in this episode of Third World Cinema Club! How many sponsors can we fit into one episode? Who really knows?
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
Neomanila: Earned Redeption Failure
Warning: Full spoilers below. Neomanila has the uncanny ability to disorient. The film initially posits that in the underbellies of Manila, its inhabitants learn how to hold on to whatever light they can manage to get their hands on. It makes its audience believe that optimism is its endgame, that it
QCinema fetes five years with strong roster of films
The Quezon City International Film Festival (QCinema) 2017 opens with a major splash with the advance Philippine premiere of “Loving Vincent” and digital comeback of Mike De Leon’s “Batch 81.” In “Loving Vincent,” dubbed as the “world’s first fully painted feature film,” directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman paint the
Cinema One Originals, QCinema reveal 2016 lineup
Major local indie film festivals Cinema One Originals and QCinema, via their respective Facebook pages, both announced on Wednesday their lineups of competing films for 2016. For C1 Originals, the finalists were selected by a panel headed by Ronald Arguelles that included director Jade Castro and critics Oggs Cruz and Richard
Kapatiran
Pepe Diokno is no stranger to breaking trends in cinema. His first film Engkwentro, a film about two boys on the run from a vigilante death squad was produced under a meager budget of 20,000 USD. His second film Above the Clouds, which was a little more personal, about a grandfather and grandson’s
Sid Lucero on growth, falling in love, and being Francis Ford Coppola’s son
In 1979, Apocalypse Now, hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time, premiered in Hollywood amid much controversy. Shot on location in Baler, Aurora, then a small fishing village in the Philippines, the film went way over budget and took much too long to shoot. When the filming
6 tips on surviving the ‘film festival’ season
As if Cinemalaya wasn’t enough… It’s been a long way down the road since Alexis Tioseco’s Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema in which he relays what Philippine Cinema has been missing out on in the last half century. But what I followed more closely in that long list was what he said
A compendium of QCinema 2015’s international line-up
QCinema 2015 Festival Director, Ed Lejano, once said that “diversity” was one of the key features they were looking for in selecting the films for this year’s festival. Thus, with today’s announcement of QCinema 2015’s international line-up of films, it comes as no suprise that the selection is quite eclectic — composed of
QCinema 2015 announces 8 full-length films in competition
On its third year, QCinema International Film Festival, the official film festival of Quezon City, the City of Stars, unveils its line-up of eight locally-produced full-length features for the Circle Competition 2015. Ang Huling Habagat by Mario Cornejo Patintero: Ang Alamat ni Meng Patalo by Mihk Vergara Iisa by Chuck
