Don’t know what Full-Length Films are at Cinemalaya? Here’s your One-Stop Guide
Don’t know what Full-Length Films are at Cinemalaya? Here’s your One-Stop Guide
Cinemalaya 2022 returns to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) after its previous forays into online pay-per-view formats in the pandemic-stricken years.
The Tanghalang Pambansa theaters located inside the CCP Complex in Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City will once again host the best that independent cinema has to offer.
As of Aug. 5, Festival Passes are out of stock, but, fret not, you can still buy individual tickets at the venue itself or at TicketWorld online for the low price of P250 each.
You can also catch films at your favorite malls like Glorietta, Trinoma, Manila Bay, Capitol Central, Centrio, and the SM branches Megamall, Baguio, Clark, Dasmariñas, and Legaspi.
If you can’t make any of these in-person screenings, they will be accessible online from Oct. 17 to 31
As cinephiles (yes you, reader) are ready to embark on face-2-face screenings of the renowned local independent film festival, here’s a guide for what films to expect and look out for on the schedule.
There will be 11 Full-Length Films that you can catch at the festival from August 5 to 14.
The 11 Full-Length films are
The Baseball Player (Carlo Obispo) tracks a child soldier dreaming of becoming a baseball player under the backdrop of a war.
Bula Sa Langit (Sheenly Gener) follows a young soldier’s return home from the harrowing Marawi crisis.
Retirada (Cynthia Cruz-Paz and Milo Alto Paz) is about a bingo-addicted ex-government official.
Ginhawa (Christian Paolo Lat) sets up a rags-to-riches tale about a Filipino boxer and the disillusionment that settles in afterwards.
Kargo (TM Malones) is a road trip adventure slash revenge flick about a woman searching for the person who killed her family during a fatal car accident.
Batsoy (Ronald Espinosa Batallones) tells a fantasy-adventure story about kids searching for some delicious batsoy.
Angkas (Rain Yamson) is a magic realist look at two estranged friends travel in a habal-habal to retrieve a dead pal.
Blue Room (Ma-an L. Asuncion), a dark comedy surrounding students tangled up over possessing drugs.
12 Weeks (Anna Isabelle Matutina) is a drama about a 40 year-old woman facing a quandary on terminating a pregnancy garnered from a toxic relationship.
Bakit ‘Di Mo Sabihin? (Real Florido) is romance about a deaf couple struggling to keep their marriage.
Kaluskos (Roman Perez) is a wild thriller ride about a mother who discovers a person who resembles her young daughter. As they connect, the line between who is the real one and the impostor gets blurred.
