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Filmmakers from the Philippine regions bond together
The thorny issue surrounding a health protocol that the Film Development Council of the Philippines, together with the He…
Review
Fading: A Review of Liryc dela Cruz's Notes of Unknown Maladies
Watching Liryc Dela Cruz’s slow cinema documentary Notes from Unknown Maladies (2018) is like watching a Lav Diaz film. T…
Announcement
Salamindanaw unveils 2020 plans
Salamindanaw Asian Film Festival will stage a special edition for 2020. The Festival has suspended its film competition t…
Review
Devouring the moon and drowning in its meaning
Markado: Bakunawa sa Duha ka-Managlahing Takna (The Moon Devourer) opens with the main protagonist, Sab (Jean Stefani Obs…
Safeguarding the moving images of Mindanao
Photo courtesy of Philippine Information Agency Mindanao cinema has grown exponentially in the last decade with its ma…
Lingua Franca: A trans-immigrant’s search for love and home
Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca continues the current trajectory in contemporary film that signals this forward shift …
Pride 2020
From bayot to mareng: Queer identities in films from the Philippine regions
Arnel Mardoquio's Ang Paglalakbay ng Mga Bituin Sa Gabing Madilim (2012) features a lesbian Tausug couple. The ad…
Review
The Intersections of Class, Race and Sexuality in Petersen Vargas’ 2 cool 2 be 4gotten
There is a seamless intersection of sexuality and Philippine postcolonial issues in the story of Petersen Vargas’ full-…
Review
Of love, border realities and migration
A still from Tsai Ming Liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone Over a week ago, Facebook users in the Philippines…
Obituary
Anita Linda, dame of Philippine cinema
Appearing in the titular role of Adela (Adolf Alix, 2008), Anita Linda starred as an old woman everyone has forgotten. S…
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