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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Greaseman

    A tramp from Manila takes over the life of the driver after a car accident.
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  • Headless

    What makes a man castrate himself? With colleague director Lav Diaz in the role of the bleeding man.
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  • Barong Brothers

    An improvised homage to the great silent slapstick tradition in which two brothers want each other’s blood.
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  • Demons

    Original combination of romantic melodrama and realistic indictment of political abuse from the Marcos era with style attributes from the horror and f
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  • Mondomanila

    Mondo Cane is the legendary and cruel shockumentary by Gualtiero Jacopetti. Khavn sees his own Mondo in Manila. Jacopetti was an outsider; Khavn is a
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  • Ex Press

    Made on a modest budget, but with an immodest cinematographic eye. Fiction and fact are mixed as in a dream. A dream about trains and…
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  • Boxing in the Philippine Islands

    Actually a type of shadowboxing. The film looks old, but the maker shot it using a simple pinhole camera. Screened before Buenas noches, España.
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  • Florentina Hubaldo, CTE

    As no other filmmaker, Lav Diaz is involved with the suffering of the people of the Philippines, with its history of colonialism, corruption and pover
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  • Buenas noches, España

    A road movie, but certainly not an ordinary one. A boy and a girl travel through Spain, but they also seem to travel through a…
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  • Century of Birthing

    A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion…
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