After a successful decade and attaining premiere status as the Philippines’ leading independent film festival and competition, Cinemalaya is now expanding its mission to the training of...
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Entries are now being accepted for the Short Film category of the 2015 Cinemalaya Independent Film Competition and to the Full-Length Feature Category of next year’s competition. Deadline for...
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Francis Xavier Pasion’s Bwaya, won Best Film as well as three other awards in the New Breed category while Jose Altarejos’ Kasal was named Best Film in the Directors Showcase category, with Nora...
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A grandfather on the brink of bankruptcy brings his grandchildren back to the community that made and shaped him, only to find out the place is no longer the same.
Kasal is a slice of life drama of a gay couple whose resolve to stay together is challenged as they attend a wedding. It also is an examination on how a gay couple navigates through the different institutions in Philippine society.
In the middle of the preparation for Taong Putik Festival, a young man penniless and in love, takes on a drug courier job that goes terribly wrong. To save him, his mother now makes the most difficult decision of her life.
“#Y” (“Hashtag Y”) chronicles the adventures of the members of a generation made universal by the realms of social media, the internet, sex, drugs and alcohol, and the occasional YOLO.
Separados is a mostly bittersweet, partly comic, partly tragic saga of six men who have separated from their wives. Based on true stories, their parallel and overlapping tales are framed by a church wedding to a second wife by one of them, who grabs...
Unlike the former Philippine First Lady, Imelda is indifferent towards shoes. To her, they are fraught with the bittersweet nostalgia of childhood, one that was marred by a difficult relationship with her shoe-maker father, Romeo. Growing up, all of...
A man attempts to find himself and the meaning of home while lost in another country.
Left by her daughter to a caregiver, an old lady with Alzheimer’s suffers as her bedroom burns during the night.
When everything material and immaterial is stripped off, what remain are souls united by and in love.
A beautician named Elvis (also known as Elvira) finds out one day that he has fathered a bouncing baby boy and is left with the challenge of single parenthood.
It's Christmas time, and a grandmother spends a quiet afternoon tending to the family chores. But the arrival of an unexpected visitor brings with her some deadly consequences.
With BasiliaTantoco as narrator, the film dramatizes the events from 1888 to 1906 when the Women of Malolos worked for the liberation of the country and of Filipino women. In 1888, the ladies asked the Gov General for permission to open a night...
On Christmas Day, David, 15, finds out that his boyfriend, Jonathan, 17 has taken another lover. The discovery leads him to the brink of depression making him think of ways to get him back at all costs. He has invited Jonathan to see him on this day...
Rey played a superhero character called ‘Milkyboy’ in a TV commercial for a milk brand in the 1980s. Fast forward 25 years and he is now working in a declining ad agency, with no bright future -- nor love life -- to speak of. It also seems that he...
