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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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.
A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In a society like ours, you have only two choices – to be a victim, or a...
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...
Set during the Japanese Occupation, four friends (Nitoy, Benny, Carding, and Badong) aspire nothing more than to become soldiers fighting the Japanese... until they are confronted by the realities of war that threaten to destroy their families and...
Divina is preparing for her daughter Rowena’s 13th birthday when she hears shocking news: her daughter has been attacked by a crocodile, her body still missing. As Divina searches for the body of her daughter in the marshlands of Agusan del Sur, she...
Miriam is up for a surprise from her husband after a rift caused by the flirty text message of someone named Alex.
A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.
A man attempts to find himself and the meaning of home while lost in another country.
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.
A vain man is out to meet a woman he met on Facebook for the first time. While waiting for her, he comes upon a naive guy whom he teaches his ways on attracting women. But the vain may need to learn some more.
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.
Darkness lurks in a corner of Ginoong Supremo’s house. Pushed to draw an infinite line in the confines of his home, the time has come for him to extend the line into this black obscurity. With gift-bearing visitors arriving at his doorstep gently...
Ang Tala chronicles ordinary events in the life of a little girl until it is tragically cut short by a debilitating disease. Despite her untimely death, she will be shown to have lived her life fully because she has lived it according to her own...
A young robot meets a lost, distressed child who disrupts his daily routine. Little did he know that this child will introduce him to an absence in his life that he will desperately try to fill.
