Festival Roundup
Tales from Davao’s Crypt: A Festival Report on Davao Ngilngig Film Festival
Kenneth Dagatan's Sanctissima horrifying effect is magnified by the production's attention to detail. Blood…
Review
Wars Within/Within Wars - Adjani Arumpac's War is A Tender Thing
Adjani Arumpac's War is A Tender Thing (2003) is not only a process of reconnection, it is also one of understandi…
Interview
A Singapore Boy: Conversation with Kan Lumé
Kan Lumé is one of the most prolific of Singapore’s new generation filmmakers. Within a week in December 2014, his s…
Director's Voice
Charting a new domain: Mindanao and the documentary tradition
Photo credit: Erwin Mascariñas I was tweny-four years old when I heard and learned in detail the story of Apu Mamalu …
Review
In Dreams: A Review of Bagane Fiola's Sonata Maria
Bagane Fiola's second film Sonata Maria (2014) is proudly Davao-made. Sonata Maria wears its identity as an inde…
Review
Photographs and memories: Carl Joseph Papa’s Ang ‘Di Paglimot ng mga Alaala (The Unforgetting)
This August my late mother visited me in my dreams for two straight nights. The dream and the image of her in that dr…
Interview
Makassar rising
Riri Riza (in white shirt) is at the helm of the Makassar SEASCreen Academy. Over the past three years, renowned dire…
Feature
Palu's film backyard
Yusuf Rajahmuda’s Halaman Belakang (The Backyard, 2013) has won accolades in Indonesia. For many decades, Indonesi…
Welcome to the New Durian Cinema!
One balmy October evening, as Singapore International Film Festival executive director Yuni Hadi, Indonesian film directo…
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