It's an early treat to moviegoers who eagerly await the celebration of the Chinese of its definition of what spring is--everything that is color green, connotative of vegetation and regeneration and a lot more of sprouting etc.

18th Spring Film Festival opens with tribute to Ateneo's Center for Chinese Studies

Filipino film programmer Eunice Helera echoed what festival director Yojiro Tanaka of the Japanese Film Festival said about the theme of the 2024 Japanese Film Festival--"nostalgia."

‘Voltes V’ movies at the Japanese Film Festival

“I like the line-up of films for this year’s Spanish Film Festival and excited to see them,” exclaimed visual artist Bon Labora at the partake of Spanish canapes prepared by La Latina at the lobby of the Red Carpet Cinema of Shangri-La Mall in Shaw Boulevard-EDSA Tuesday afternoon.


2023 Spanish Film Festival in Manila pays tribute to filmmaker Carlos Saura

If there's a vehicle to bring a particular place still unexplored or to revisit but time does not permit it (no matter how beautiful or ugly it might be), a film does it for you.


Baguio City suburb: A flower garden captured in a film

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Romando Artes (center), together with Manila International Film Festival Organizer Winston Emano, announced in a press conference in Pasig City Tuesday, January 9, that the 49th Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) had generated a gross of P1.069 billion as of January 7, surpassing the P1.061 billion revenue recorded in 2018.

MMFF 2023 EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS

What are the chances of the ten entries to the 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) at the box-office when they recently opened the Manila International Film Festival (MIFF) in Los Angeles, California?

Dingdong Dantes graces 1st Manila International Film Festival

Even before it won several plums--2nd Best Picture, Best Actor in Paul Cedrick Juan as Father Jose Burgos, Best Director for Pepe Diokno, Gatpuno Antonio Villegas Award, Best Sound, Best Production Design and Best Cinematography--at the recent 49th Metro Manila Film Festival awards night held at the New Frontier Theater in Cubao, "GomBurZa"--the martyrdom of the three Filipino Catholic priests Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jacinto Zamora and Burgos--was already the favorite entry in the fest of most celebrities.


"GomBurZa" film reverberates nationwide

"Yehey, Brillante Mendoza is in the international film scene again," exclaimed Filipino entertainment journalist Danny Vibas.

Brillante Mendoza lends film expertise in jury, masterclass

Marketing and booking of local movies these days take various modes of production.

Teen idol Beaver Magtalas' film to premiere in Cabanatuan City

QCinema opens its first edition of Critics Lab where six aspiring film critics will experience hands-on guidance from the industry's finest including established writers, journalists, film scholars, curators, and film professionals.


1st QCinema Critics Lab opened to applicants

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