The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) unveiled the first four official entries to its 52nd edition during the festival 's launch at GH Mall in San Juan on Tuesday. The initial lineup includes "2nd Miracle in Cell No. 7," "Amir," "Haunted Carnival," and "The Greatest Showdown." Produced by...
George Clooney is returning to the Venice Film Festival this year, where he’ll be honored with a lifetime achievement award. The festival’s organizers said Monday that Clooney has been selected to receive the Golden Lion at the 83rd edition of the festival in September. “I’ve had so...
A movie collaboration between comedy icons Vice Ganda and Vic Sotto now appears almost certain after an accidental social media leak and a surprise exchange of greetings on their rival noontime television shows added to mounting speculation ahead of an expected official announcement. The project,...
GMA Public Affairs and GMA Pictures ' animated documentary "58th" has earned another international accolade after winning the Facing the Edge Award at the 2026 Doc Edge Festival in New Zealand. The recognition was announced during the annual documentary festival, regarded as New Zealand...
Do you know that you can watch Japanese films for free online? I am not talking about bootleg or pirated sites, but an official one sanctioned by the Japanese government. And all you need to do is sign up for free. The Japanese Film Festival (JFF), which regularly hosts movie screenings in certain...
Filipino filmmaker Avid Liongoren has scored a major international breakthrough after his animated feature "Zsazsa Zaturnnah" was selected for competition at the 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) in South Korea. The Philippines-France co-production is one of only 11 films...
For several horror and zombie film fans, the name of director Yeon Sang-Ho will always be held with special reverence. He is behind 2016’s "Train to Busan"; and if you ask those in the know to rank the best zombie genre films of the last twenty years, "Train to Busan" would easily be in the Top...
Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization, “Fjord,” has won the Palme d’Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival ’s top honor for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” At a 79th Cannes Film Festival that saw few films...
Korean zombie thriller “Colony” is set for its official screening at the 79th Cannes Film Festival , running from May 12 to 23 in Cannes, France. The film is directed by Yeon Sang-ho, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the global hit " Train to Busan ," marking another major international showcase...
Fresh off a historic Best Actor win at the Metro Manila Film Festival 2025 for "Call Me Mother," Vice Ganda is already stirring excitement hinting that his planned entry for this year’s iteration of the f estival will be unlike anything he has done before. During a recent encounter, the...
Adamson University Communication students confronted pressing social issues through cinema as they mounted the fifth edition of the KOMMotion Film Festival on Tuesday, Dec. 9, showcasing short films that reflected the realities, struggles, and contradictions of contemporary Filipino life. Held as...
The Austrian Embassy in Manila, in partnership with SM and the Film Development Council of the Philippines, launched the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival on December 1, 2025, at SM Mall of Asia Cinema 1. The festival began with “Wild Innsbruck” (Austria, 2019), a 45-minute documentary directed by...
