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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • How to Raise a Smart & Happy Child from Age Zero to Five

    Comedy about child abuse. Looks like an NGO video about the Philippines, but the local director turns the tables with devilish delight.
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  • Kalayaan

    Last summer, China and Japan were suddenly on a war footing because of claims to a couple of small uninhabited islands. The film is set…
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  • Mater Dolorosa

    Adolfo makes several films each year, without losing quality. This time it’s a dramatic crime family story with impressive acting and equally impressi
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  • Steel Is the Earth

    By the chronicler of the Filipino countryside and harsh life on remote islands, beyond thick jungles and behind wild mountains. He knows what he&rsquo
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  • Not a Soul

    A man flees to guerrilla territory. His son is a rebel, but will that save him? Panic in photographs and film. The power of images.…
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  • Happy Lamento

    Clash of the titans: Kluge mixes some of his weirder TV-skits with scenes from one of IFFR-darling Khavn’s more outrageous features. BOOM!
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  • Dog Days

    Filipino sports film, melodrama and nightmare about a fallen basketball prospect, shot in glorious black-and-white and starring a Mitsubishi Galant.
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  • Prologue to the Great Desaparecido

    Great filmmaker prepares for a historical masterpiece set in an inhospitable, black-and-white jungle. A taster.
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  • Kamera obskura

    As a Filipino variation on The Artist, this is a fictive silent film as well. A supposedly rediscovered masterpiece recounts with considerable visual
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  • Norte, the End of History

    Lav Diaz is a true storyteller; his stories are sometimes very long, often in black-and-white. This one lasts just four hours – and is in…
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