The French Embassy in the Philippines launched the 26th French Film Festival last Nov. 25 at the SM Mall of Asia, in partnership with SM Supermalls and SM Cinema. This is set to run until Dec. 3, showcasing a selection of around 21 contemporary French feature films. Ambassador Extraordinary...
Prepare to transform the city into a canvas of blue, red, and white, as the French Film Festival marks its iconic presence, commemorating 26 years of delivering a selection of top-notch contemporary French movies to the Filipino audience. The French Embassy in the Philippines and Micronesia, in...
Filmmakers, film programmers, and film executives have started arriving in South Korea since Oct. 4 to attend the “Cannes of Asia” at the 28th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and to participate in the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM). Asian Contents and Film Markets (ACFM) The...
Selecting 10 official entries of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) was never done before, except for this year! It is unprecedented and surreal. Let us weigh in the pros and cons. With four shoo-in titles, (K)ampon starring Beauty Gonzales and Derek Ramsay, Penduko with Matteo Guidicelli,...
Scrapper The New Horizons section of the 11th edition of QCinema, which runs from Nov. 17 to 26, features five acclaimed directorial film debuts: City Of Wind by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Foremost By Night by Victor Iriarte, Scrapper by Charlotte Regan, Through The Night by Delphine Girard, and...
AWARD WINNING SHOT Anton Juan shooting a scene in the international film Amon Banwa sa Lawud at the mangrove island of Suyac in Sagay City, Negros Occidental (Photo courtesy of the Sagay City PIO and Tourism Office) Amon Banwa sa Lawud (Our Island of the Mangrove Moons), co-produced by the Erehwon...
The Filipino film “Filipiñana” by director Rafael Manuel won three awards at the 2023 Asian Project Market (APM) being held as part of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in Busan, South Korea. The APM announced the winners on Oct. 10 during the awards ceremony at Paradise Hotel...
Empowering Filipino storytellers TikTok, the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and Viva, a premier multimedia company, have teamed up to launch the short film festival #ForYouPelikula. It’s a transformative initiative, which aims to nurture the Philippine short film industry and...
The full roster of the Philippine women’s national football team is expected to assemble when it holds a training camp ahead of the AFC Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament second round this October. Filipinas members at the FIFA Women's World Cup. (PWNFT) The mission remains firm for...
The Korean wave has undoubtedly made strides in recent years as K-dramas, K-pop, and even K-cuisine have swept nations worldwide into a fascination for anything and everything Korean. In the Philippines, many of us might remember tuning in to local primetime television to catch the...
One of the most entertaining films in competition at the 80th Venice Film Festival was Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things . The full house audience at Sala Grande Venezia was all smiles, punctuating the screening with long periods of applause. Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo The 141-minute black romantic...
Seven movies will be screened during the 2023 Korean Film Festival (KFF) in the Philippines. Under the theme “Ka-ja! Korea Through Films,” the Korean Film Festival will run from Sept. 22 to 26 and is presented by the Korean Embassy in the Philippines and the Korean Cultural Center (KCC)...
