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GEORGE VAIL KABRISTANTE To some award-giving bodies the cut-off for their awarding rites from the harvest of the best among the crop of films shown the past year was the last day of the recently concluded Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). From said...

(SPOT.ph) Even if 2016 has been a mostly stressful year, at least we had some excellent films that offered a momentary escape or a new perspective on the complicated world we live in. We witnessed the recognition of indie filmmaking with the MMFF's return...

After winning the Silver Bear (Alfred Bauer Prize) at the 66th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin for his eight-hour opus Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis (Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery), art house filmmaker Lav Diaz won the top prize, the Golden Lion (Leone...

January 9, 2017 For the year 2016, I was able to watch 28 Filipino films (up from 17 in 2015).  However, it had not been easy for me to catch the difficult screening schedules of the various indie film fests this year. I totally missed the CineFilipino...

The Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) announced that the film of Brillante Mendoza, Ma Rosa has been chosen as the as official entry of the Philippines for the Foreign Language Category of the 89th Academy Awards happening this coming 2017. The...