Tag: Filipino Cinema

World Cinema Report: The Philippines – Most Anticipated for 2023

In 2022, the Philippines was on quite a roll on the international cinematic arena with local films gaining critical acclaim and Filipino talents getting...

Interview: Erik Matti – On the Job: The Missing 8

In anticipation for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I chatted with Erik Matti, whose film On the Job: This Missing 8 is the Philippines’...

When the Waves Are Gone | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

When Fair is Foul: Diaz Attempts Neo-Noir in Interminable Derivatives In the twenty plus features Filipino auteur Lav Diaz has premiered over the past two...

Genus, Pan | Review

Three Amigos: Diaz Explores Featherless Bipeds in Latest Leisurely Expose on Baseness Running time is always a point of contention when it comes the cinema...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #52. When the Waves Are Gone – Lav Diaz

When the Waves Are Gone Without taking a breath, Filipino auteur Lav Diaz should likely have latest feature When the Waves Are Gone ready for...

Interview: Lav Diaz – Season of the Devil (Ang Panahon ng Halimaw)

Economically shot by this auteur's standards (half the length of 2016's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery), Lav Diaz's just under four opus cleverly...

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Interview: Arab Nassar – Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Over the course of their three feature films, Gaza-born...

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the...

Interview: Ali Asgari – Divine Comedy

Sometimes, in a landscape where censorship and endless approvals...

Interview: Hasan Hidi – The President’s Cake

Earlier this year, first-time filmmaker Hasan Hadi arrived in...