While local films at Puregold’s CinePanalo do what they do best by making audiences laugh, grieve, remember, and feel, the festival actively seeks out stories rarely told on screen
The film ‘Mono No Aware’ marks director BC Amparado’s full-fledged pivot to independent filmmaking, leaving behind his corporate job and the financial stability it used to offer
Weaving Bicol folk dance and music, the film ‘An Sayaw nin mga Salampati’ shows the enduring hope of the families of the desaparecidos
‘Filipiñana,’ the country’s official film entry to the Oscars, hopes the international audience sees something different — a ‘different side of the Philippines’ and a ‘different kind of Philippine cinema’
Heart-wrenching, honest, humane, ‘Edjop’ is told through the eyes of his daughter who never knew him and grew up resenting him and the path he had chosen
Drawn to movies outside the mainstream, the director of Cinemalaya hit ‘Tayo Lang Ang Nakakaalam’ believes that film isn’t always meant to be ‘beautiful and pleasurable’
With her memories fading, Edjop’s wife, Joy, may not have the opportunity to appreciate the powerful performances of Frankie Pangilinan and Elijah Canlas in the upcoming film, ‘Edjop’
Many have noted the excellent films in Cinemalaya 22, but what’s truly worth noting are the outstanding performances by women
‘Kanibal,’ a 16-minute Hiligaynon short film written and directed by Michael Baylon, turns body horror into a commentary on the redevelopment of an Iloilo City public market
Heat and thirst establish the class divide in ‘Filipiñana,’ Rafael Manuel’s satirical debut featuring a 17-year-old ‘tee girl’