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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Stone Is the Earth

    Topical issue wrapped in a small family story: on the day when Vergel returns from the mines, the calm life of his little brothers and…
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  • Engkwentro

    Story of two brothers who fight in a Filipino slum against ubiquitous gangs and government supported death squads, which summarily execute dozens of t
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  • Ante

    Raw and intense drama about the Filipino family Domingo, each of the members of which try to survive in their own clumsy way and wrestle…
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  • Aurora

    In the heart of the jungle, the social worker Aurora is kidnapped by a group of Moslem rebels. Her name means ‘first light of day’,…
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  • Sunday School

    Portrait of a life and a the country. A Filipino film maker follows a Zambian film maker and discovers a poor yet fascinating and colourful…
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  • Maynila sa kuko ng liwanag

    The feature Maynila, which is regarded as one of his most important and most typical films, and the short film Brocka are programmed in the…
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  • Those Long Haired Nights

    In this unflinching yet open-hearted portrait of prostitution, we follow transgender women Tuesday, Amanda and Barbie through Burgos, the red light di
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  • Neomanila

    Welcome to Manila’s slums, now shady hunting grounds thanks to Duterte’s bloody war on drugs. Homeless teen Toto is sucked into a vortex of
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  • Respeto

    Here’s a film reminding us that true hiphop is political. In this era of extrajudicial killings under the reign of the current Phillipines president,
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  • The Ashes and Ghosts of Tayug 1931

    Layered historic essay presented as polymorphic fiction, about the notorious rebellion in 1931 in Tayug, Philippines. A filmmaker goes looking for the
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