The Girl with the Gun (Philippines, 2019) [OAFF 2020]
Rae Red was introduced to the world through co-writing Birdshot (2017) with her cousin Mikhail Red. Since then, she has quickly accrued projects, collaborating with...
Signal Rock (Philippines, 2018) [SDAFF 2018]
Chito Rono’s Signal Rock is a film that revolves around the day-to-day struggles of a poor family in Biri, Samar and their efforts to help...
Never Not Love You (Philippines, 2018): Love in the Spirit of Capitalism
Antoinette Jadaone’s romantic drama Never Not Love You (2018) has a title that sparks theoretical interest. If Proust’s madeleine cake brings us to his hometown...
Rekorder (Philippines, 2013)
Kicking off with a startling montage of CCTV footage of violent crimes committed in Manila’s public spaces, it’s immediately clear that Mikhail Red’s first feature...
Segurista (Philippines, 1996)
The films that Tikoy Aguiluz has directed over his 37 year feature filmmaking career have not just courted controversy but also straddled the oftentimes contradictory...
Rigodon (Philippines, 2012)
Erik Matti is a very popular mainstream filmmaker in his home country of the Philippines. The man has worked in the movie industry since the...
Sana Dati (Philippines, 2013)
Romance, like any well-established genre, has several well-known tropes that must always be followed. Clichés usually involve a man and woman accidentally bumping into each...