Every Cinemalaya year seems to arrive with its own pulse, a mood that quietly defines the lineup. If last year’s…
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There are some films that resist the urge to introduce themselves or announce their themes. Instead, they wait quietly and…
Watching “Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream” is the kind of experience that leaves you sitting with a knot in your stomach long…
“In the Mood for Love” in the Shadows of Postwar Saigon. It’s a title I offer with full awareness of…
We don’t talk enough about the women who spend their lives holding families together from afar—working in strangers’ homes, raising…
There’s something insidious about the way “Stranger Eyes” draws you in. Not with shocks or whiplash reveals, but with a…
For the longest time, Philippine cinema has danced around certain subjects; tiptoeing past them, softening their impact, or ignoring them…
It takes a rare kind of empathy to direct a film that observes hardship through the gaze of a child—one…
Coming-of-age stories often cling to the notion that growth is a clean arc: a lesson learned, a heartbreak endured, and…
In Jessica J. Rowlands’ directorial debut “Rise,” there’s a quiet certainty to every frame. It’s as if the story was…