CINEMALAYA CINCO
The 5th Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival
17 to 26 July 2009
At the Cultural Center of the Philippines
Schedule of Screenings, Part One: THE COMPETITION FILMS
The 10 Cinemalaya 2009 Full-Lengths:
24K by Ana Agabin
• 19 July/Sun, 6:15PM at VENUE 4 - Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
• 21 July/Tue, 12:45PM at VENUE 5 - Tanghalang Huseng Batute
• 22 July/Wed, 9:00PM at VENUE 1 - Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
• 23 July/Thu, 6:15PM at VENUE 5 - Tanghalang Huseng Batute
• 24 July/Fri, 9:00PM at VENUE 4 - Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
• 25 July/Sat, 12:45PM at VENUE 1 - Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
• 26 July/Sun, 3:30PM at VENUE 2 - Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
ANG NERSERI by Vic Acedillo Jr.
• 18 July/Sat, 6:15PM at VENUE 1 - Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
• 19 July/Sun, 12:45PM at VENUE 5 - Tanghalang Huseng Batute
• 21 July/Tue, 12:45PM at VENUE 4 - Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
• 23 July/Thu, 3:30PM at VENUE 1 - Tanghalang Nicanor Aberlardo (CCP Main Theatre)
• 24 July/Fri, 9:00PM at VENUE 5 - Tanghalang Huseng Batute
• 25 July/Sat, 3:30PM at VENUE 2 - Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theatre)
• 26 July/Sun, 3:30PM at VENUE 4 - Bulwangang Alagad Ng Sining (CCP MKP Hall)
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SYNOPSIS
Richard and Raymond are two teenage brothers in Davao City. Richard is the leader of his gang, “Bagong Buwan,” while Raymond is just being inducted into rival gang, “Batang Dilim.” Complications at a deadly midnight engkwentro (square-off), when Raymond is given the task of killing his older brother. Meanwhile, the Davao Death Squad lurks the streets. This real-life vigilante group is allegedly backed by the city mayor and responsible for many unsolved murders of teen gangsters. Today, they are hunting down Richard. Will they take the younger brother, too?
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Based on a true story, Last Supper No. 3 is a humorous look at the circuitous path our legal system takes to justice. Assistant Production Designer Wilson Nañawa is tasked to look for a Last Supper to use as a prop for a TV commercial. He finds three, but loses the one owned by Gareth Pugeda. What happens next changes Wilson forever as he spends the next two years entangled in bureaucracy and red tape facing estafa and serious physical injury charges. How will this ordinary man fare against a system he knows nothing about? Will justice prevail for Wilson? Or will he be imprisoned for the loss of Last Supper No. 3?
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Sanglaan looks at seemingly simple relationships and uncomplicated events happening in a very mundane institution. A religious and single-minded businesswoman with a losing proposition, afraid of old age. A timid, vulnerable girl hopelessly in love with a high school crush. A security guard whose wife has a fragile heart. A charming and mysterious seaman just passing through. And a loan shark who won’t take “no” for an answer. These are some of the characters that populate the milieu of Sanglaan, a light, funny, poignant and very Pinoy story about hope and redemption..
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Cocoy ,12, takes on a great responsibility of taking care of his older siblings while his mother, Mai, goes to the province to get money to pay the expensive hospital bills for her three mentally sick children. His mother is gone for two weeks and Cocoy’s struggle in managing his personal, school and home life is a nerve-racking challenge. In the end he faces truth and life head-on as he fights for his own sanity.
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HIMALAYA “Laya” MARQUEZ has never had a complete dream since she was 12. Something always wakes her up at night. That something used to be her father, the famous photographer DANILO MARQUEZ, whose constant sexual abuse of Laya tore her family apart. Now, at 27, Laya possesses a cold exterior that hides torrents of pain. Working as a travel photographer, Laya is sent to Isabela to capture a rare harvest ritual called Mangatyanan by the Labwanan tribe.
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The film is a love story between a Deaf boy who loves to dance and a troubled rocker girl who abuses her hearing. One lives in the world of solitude and silence, the other in noise and fear. Crossing paths in a Baguio camp that mixes Deaf and hearing kids, both find that they have more in common with each other including a love for music.
DINIG SANA KITA is the first Filipino film to have a Deaf Actor in a Lead role. Romalito Mallari is a Deaf performer that has played several stage productions as actor and/or dancer. It also features several Deaf actors in the cast and ensemble.
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Each morning, baskets of black fruits mysteriously appear by the front yard of Fe. Thinking that it was a reconciliatory gesture from her abusive husband, Dante, Fe tells him about it. This only confirms Dante’s suspicions that she might be entertaining a lover. Fearing her husband’s jealousy, Fe grows even more scared as the fruits kept coming, a step closer to her front door. She keeps everything to herself until she turns to a former suitor, Arturo. When Fe urges Arturo to elope, she finds out that the young man has far more binding commitments with his family.
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Manok is a middle-class treasure hunter who’s been digging for Japanese treasure for years. He and his companions are in the final stage of their current site in the mountains of Suyo, Ilocos Sur, an area reputed as a Japanese stronghold during World War II. All the signs at their site indicate that they are certain to find treasure. With their resources nearly depleted, Manok convinces his godfather in marriage, Freddie, to finance the rest of their operations. Manok, Freddie, and another friend, Boyet, journey back to the site hoping that, as their medium predicted, they will find gold before Manok’s wife gives birth in a month’s time.
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CINEMALAYA 2009 KIDS TREATS:
In Cooperation with the National Council for Children’s Television
Kids Treats Shorts Program A:
ANDONG by Rommel “Milo” Tolentino, DIAMANTE SA LANGIT by Vic Acedillo Jr., MAIKLING KWENTO by Hubert Tibi, PUTOT by Jeck Cogama, TRAILS OF WATER by Sheron R. Dayoc
• 18 July/Sat, 10:00AM at VENUE 5 - Tanghalang Huseng Batute
• 26 July/Sun, 10:00AM at VENUE 5 - Tanghalang Huseng Batute
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