Film Development Council of the Philippines

FILMS IN PUSAN

YANGGAW

International Title:  Affliction

ASIAN CINEMA
Screening: D3 — Oct 9, 19:30

 

2008

Director: Richard Somes

Cast: Ronnie Lazaro, Tetchie Agbayani, Joel Torre

 

In a far-flung province, the patriarch of a small backwoods family has to make some difficult choices when he learns that his daughter has been infected with a sickness that will turn her into a bloodthirsty monster.

 

BASECO BAKAL BOYS

 

DOCUMENTARY
Screening: M2 — Oct 15, 13:00

 

2009

Director: Ralston Jover 

Cast: Gina Pareño, Simon  Ibarra, Jess Everdone,  Cherry Malvar, Joe Gruta.

 

Gina Pareño leads the cast of Bakal Boys (Children Metal Divers) as a Muslim woman in search of her missing 10-year-old grandson. Follow the story of children in Baseco, Tondo who scavenge for iron and metal scraps in the murky waters of Manila Bay.

 

ASTIG

International Title: Squalor

 

NEW CURRENTS
Screening: CGV5 —Oct 11, 14:00.

                                    Oct 13, 20:00.

                                    Oct 14, 13:30.
2009

Director: GB Sampedro

Cast: Dennis Trillo, Sid Lucero

 

Four stories of young men trying to survive in the tough streets of Manila. A con man starts to feel guilty about his relationship with a naive young student. An expectant father tries everything to provide for his family. An illegitimate son tries to cash in the last of his inheritance. A protective brother exacts revenge for his wronged sister.

 

BLOGOG

 

SHORT FILM
Screening:

To be featured in the Short Films Showcase

 

2009

Director: Rommel “Milo” Tolentino

Cast: Andrei Rafael de Dios, Laarni Lopez, Clarisse Anne Valenzia, Kristian de Dios, Richard de Dios, Edward Dimaano, Joenille Guevarra  

 

A seven year old boy got more than what he bargained for when he picked up a filthy yellow ball down by the creek.

 

BONSAI

 

SHORT FILM
Screening:

To be featured in the Short Films Showcase

 

2009

Director:  Alfonso “Borgy” K. Torre

Cast: Richard Somes, Angel Aquino

Bonsai tells the story of Romy, an obese, insecure security guard who attempts to capture the attention of his neighbor, Daisy, an ambitious laundry woman, and hopefully make her fall in love with him.  The film explores insecurity and the distance one is willing to go through for love.

 

LOLA

 

WINDOW ON ASIAN CINEMA

Screening: CGV2 — Oct 12, 14:00
                        CA —  Oct 15, 20:30

2009

Director: Brillante Mendoza 

Cast: Anita Linda, Rustica Carpio, Tanya Gomez, Jhong Hilario, Ketchup Eusebio

 

Lola Sepa’s grandson has been killed by a cell phone snatcher. Despite being devastated by the sudden violence, she must bear the burden of making funeral arrangements. She and her family are poor, and there is not enough money for the coffin nor the legal pursuit against the suspected  murderer. But the elderly woman is ready to even seek a bank loan to assure both a proper burial and justice for her beloved grandson.

 

KINATAY

 

Screening: CGV4 — Oct 9, 10:30

 

2009

Director: Brillante Mendoza

Cast: Mercedes Cabral, Maria Isabel Lopez, Coco Martin, Lauren Novero, John Regala

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.

 

MABABANGONG BANGUNGOT

International Title: Perfumed Nightmare

 

Screening: M10 — Oct 10, 19:00
                                  Oct 14, 16:30

1977

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

 

Kidlat Tahimik is a young man living in a small Filipino village. As the film opens,  we see him in three stages of life (symbolized by toy and real “jeepneys”, the elaborately recrafted and decorated vehicles that have their origins in the Jeeps left by the Allies in World War II) crossing the bridge—“the bridge of life” —to his village.

 

Narrating in voiceover, Tahimik explains the patterns of daily life in the village.

 

THE PASSIONATE STRANGERS

Screening: CGV1 — Oct 13, 20:00

 

1966
Director: Eddie Romero

Cast: Michael Parsons, Valora Noland, Celia Rodriguez, Vic Diaz, Mario Montenegro

 

An angry husband (Parsons) accidentally kills an old man while trying to find out where his wife (Noland) and her Filipino lover are meeting. Because the old man had been trying to improve labor conditions for Filipino field workers, it is thought that the unsolved murder was politically motivated. This tangle then sparks labor riots.

 

SAKAY

 

Screening: CGV2 — Oct 11, 14:00

 

1993

Director: Raymond Red 

Cast: Julio Diaz, Tetchie Agbayani, Leopoldo Salcedo, Pen Medina

 

A historical epic on the life of the Filipino revolutionary Macario Sakay and the last revolutionaries in the struggle against the U.S. invasion and occupation.

 

BABAE SA BREAKWATER

International Title: Woman on Breakwater

 

Screening: CGV1 — Oct 13, 14:00

 

2004

Director: Mario O’Hara 

Cast: Katherine Luna, Kristoffer King, Gardo Versoza, Amy Austria, Alcris Galura, Yoyoy Villame, Evelyn Vargas

 

Residing in the shanty town tenements beneath the tourist-infested breakwater of Manila, Basilio falls in love with a prostitute Paquita (Katherine Luna) a girl who started whoring so early in her life that at her relatively young age she's already played out, her body full of sexual diseases and open sores. Their relationship is troubled by the apparent poverty and the more impending threat of the slums' jealous protector, ex-cop Dave (Gardo Versoza).

 

INSIANG

 

Screening: CGV2 — Oct 10, 11:00

 

1976

Director: Lino Brocka

Cast: Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Ruel Vernal, Rez Cortez, Marlon Ramirez, Nina Lorenzo

 

The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge.

 

ANG DAAN PATUNGONG KALIMUGTONG

International Title: The Road to Kalimugtong

Screening:  CGV5 — Oct 10, 11:00

2005

Director: Mes de Guzman 

Cast: Joey Almoete, Analyn Bangsi-il, Jay Bassig

 

For Jinky and Potpot, life in Benguet is simply a trek to and from school. Every day, together with other children, they have to cross mountains, rivers and hanging bridges to get to their destination. They survive thanks to the work of their elder brothers, Manong Ramil and Manong Ronaldo, who inherited the task of looking after their siblings and grandfather on their parents' death. Both work for a mining company, leaving the younger ones in their grandfather's care. But the elder brothers haven't been back for months. The neighbors think they may have been buried in a mine landslide.

 

While waiting for news, the kids and their grandfather try to subsist on the herbs growing in their backyard. Meanwhile, they continue to pray for their brothers' safety and their own salvation.

 

CITY AFTER DARK

 

Screening: CGV2 — Oct 12, 11:00

1980

Director: Ishmael Bernal

Cast: Cherie Gil, Mitch Valdez, Charito Solis, Orestes Ojeda,  Rio Locsin, Bernardo Bernardo.

            Set in Manila's edgiest hoods, Ishmael Bernal's ensemble drama explores the Philippine capital's seedier characters, including pimps, pushers and poverty-stricken prostitutes. A drug-dealing lesbian, a blind bathhouse worker and a gay clothing designer figure prominently into this unflinching trip through Manila's dark alleys.

 

GENGHIS KHAN

 

Screening: CGV5 — Oct 15, 10:30

 

1952

Director: Lou Salvador 

Cast: Manuel Conde, Elvira Reyes, Lou Salvador 

 

This colorful if somewhat truncated biopic of the legendary Mongol leader was filmed in the Philippines. Manuel Conde (the film's producer) stars as Temujin, the peasant later to be known as Genghis Khan. In rapid-fire order, Temujin fights a rival tribe over the rights to a water hole, avenges the murder of his father, and claims the heroine (Elvira Reyes).

 

ANG PAGDADALAGA NI MAXIMO OLIVEROS

International Title: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros

 

Screening: CGV1 — Oct 13, 11:00
        Cinus Busan — Oct 15, 14:00

 

2005

Director: Auraeus Solito

Cast: Nathan Lopez, Soliman Cruz, JR Valentin, Neil Ryan Sese, Ping Medina, Bodjie Pascua

 

Can a 12-year old lad who wishes he were a girl navigate the mean streets of Manila? Maxi cooks, cleans, and sews for his father and older brothers who are petty criminals. He's seen adults hug and kiss and he's watched romantic movies, so on the verge of puberty, he develops a crush on Victor, a kindly young cop. Maxi's heart and loyalties are on a collision course: Victor is investigating crimes that lead him to Maxi's family.

 

INDEPENDENCIA

Screening: CGV7 — Oct 12, 11:30
                    CGV1 — Oct 13, 17:00

 

2009

Director: Raya Martin

Cast: Tetchie Agbayani, Alessandra de Rossi, Sid Lucero, Paula Peralejo

Set during the American occupation of the Philippines, the 77-minute epic portrays the Filipino’s struggle for freedom during those trying times.

 

SERAFIN GERONIMO:

KRIMINAL NG BARYO CONCEPCION

International Title: Criminal of Barrio Concepcion

 

Screening: CGV3 — Oct11, 20:00

 

1998

Director: Lav Diaz

Cast: Raymond Bagatsing, Lorli Villanueva, Angel Aquino, Ana Capri, Dindi Gallardo, Tonton Gutierrez, Richard Joson, Aya  Medel

 

An investigative reporter (Angelo Aquino) stumbles upon Serafin (Raymond Bagatsing), a simple farm hand, while inquiring about a series of grisly murders. In a desperate attempt to raise money for his sick wife's treatment, Serafin gets conned into kidnapping a rich Chinese couple's baby. The result, involving the child and a psychotic band of mobsters, is bloody and horrific.

 

ITIM

International Title: Rites of May

 

Screening: CGV2 — Oct 13, 14:00

 

1976

Director: Mike De Leon

 Cast: Tommy Abuel, Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Mario Montenegro, Bembol Roco, Lou Salvador Jr., Charo Santos

 

When young Teresa meets her new friend Jun, she begins to have psychic visions about the circumstances surrounding her sister's death. Mike de Leon's directorial debut, Itim is a ghost story involving a botched abortion with haunting images and masterful camera work.

 

OLIVER

 

Screening: M10 — Oct 10, 19:00
                                   Oct 14, 16:30

 

1983

Director: Nick Deocampo

Cast: Rene “Oliver” Villarama

 

A documentary on the life of Oliver, a male sex worker who does odd things with his rear end. Married and with children, Oliver supports his family with his earnings doing male-to-male sex shows.

 

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Tata believes that Bohol is the ultimate paradise of hope for his slumdog life in Quiapo. So when his ailing mother suddenly wished for them to transfer to Bohol, Tata’s life underwent a major turning point. Upon his arrival, Tata will be shocked to find that his biological father is still alive and that he has a stepbrother named Prince. Much to his surprise, Tata was immediately accepted by his new family and found a new life with them. As Tata begins his new life in Bohol, he will also discover the true love that he has been long waiting for. Tata unexpectedly meets the lovely Stephani and falls in love with her instantly. But when he finds out that Stephani is the soon to be bride of his stepbrother Prince, Tata will have to toughly choose between family and his destiny.