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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]