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Tag: Philippines

About Us But Not About Us

Jun Robles Lana
2022

Jeremy Clarke - 25-11-2022

When a gay academic takes a student out to lunch, their discussion at table opens up several cans of worms – Filipino drama premieres in the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Apparition (Aparisyon)

Isabel Sandoval
2012

Redmond Bacon - 10-08-2020

A self-contained nunnery finds itself intersecting with the forces of history in this mostly academic movie - running as part of Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Quezon’s Game

Matthew Rosen
2020

Eoghan Lyng - 04-02-2020

In this biopic of the titular president of The Philippines, Filipino actor Raymond Bagatsing remembers the leader as an often forgotten WW2 hero - in cinemas Friday, January 31st [Read More...]

The Kingmaker

Lauren Greenfield
2019

Redmond Bacon - 07-12-2019

Extraordinary profile of Imelda Marcos, dubbed the "Marie Antoinette" of the Philippines due to her extravagant plundered wealth, is now available on VoD [Read More...]

Kalel, 15

Jun Robles Lana
2019

Victor Fraga - 29-11-2019

HIV-positive teen grapples with a dysfunctional family and society, in this extremely bleak yet sobering drama from the Phillipines - live from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

K’Na Dreamweaver

Ida Anita Del Mundo
2016

Eoghan Lyng - 04-10-2019

A young princess of the T'boli indigenous group of the Philippines discovers that she has been chosen by the gods as her village's dreamweaver - from the Native Spirit Festival [Read More...]