Feast your eyes on ‘ANi [The Harvest], Kim Zuñiga and Sandro del Rosario’s film debuts this Cinemalaya 2019. Kim Zuñiga and Sandro del Rosario makes their debut to Cinemalaya this August with the release of their science fiction film ANi [The Harvest] which tells the story of an orphaned boy
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Paki
About two-thirds into Giancarlo Abrahan’s sophomore feature Paki, almost the whole of its ensemble start to gather around a table for a meal. This is the first time the family’s matriarch Alejandra (acted to a tee by Dexter Doria) will face once again her then not yet present and newly estranged
Dukot
In a society where crime has inevitably become a way of life, director Paul Soriano (Kid Kulafu; Thelma) presents his latest film, Dukot, as a peephole into the traumas of abduction. The film delves into the psyches of both victims and perpetrators to show that evil persists in all social
‘Smaller and Smaller Circles’ is being adapted into a film; Raya Martin directs
The producers of Heneral Luna and acclaimed director Raya Martin (Buenas noches, España!) have teamed to film the upcoming adaptation of F.H. Batacan’s seminal mystery crime-thriller, Smaller and Smaller Circles. If that doesn’t give you the cinephilic tinglies, you might want to consider getting yourself checked. But you already know
Here’s your first look at Paul Soriano’s latest ‘Dukot’
Quickly dropping here the teaser poster (and trailer) for Paul Soriano’s latest film, Dukot, a crime-thriller starring Enrique Gil. The film is produced by Star Cinema and Soriano’s own film outfit, Ten17P, responsible for the Berlinale-winning Lav Diaz film, Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis. Not much is known about its plot, but having
Dayang Asu
Much has been said about the pacing issues of Bor Ocampo’s Dayang Asu (Eng title: Dognation), and I think that is what makes this film really interesting; it is a nihilistic slow-burner, but it’s more than just a slow-burner. Set in a town of Pampanga, it focuses on a father
Baka Siguro Yata
A ne’er-do-well fat slacker and a bombshell way out his league end up pregnant after a drunken hook-up and learn to love each other along the way. A long-separated couple, now in different relationships, rekindle old flames. A high school couple deals with the pressure of losing their virginity before graduation. If these loglines
Mariquina
Jerrold Tarog’s ingenious work in last year’s Cinemalaya-entry Sana Dati distinguishes him as a man of fine, filmic talent: his film, closing the famed Camera Trilogy (sided with Confessional and Mangatyanan), is about acceptance and closure; yet it goes in all sorts of direction, transforming a simple romantic tale into
