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Focus Philippines |
Saturday, December 5, 2015 / 6 pm
Maison de Portugal - Résidence Andre de Gouveia
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Happy New Year |
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Joseph Israel Laban
Philippines
2015 / 0:15:00
Tondo General Hospital is always chaotic being the biggest public
hospital in the oldest and most impoverished section of Manila. But
New Year’s Eve turns its anarchic wards into something else, much more
akin to a warzone rather than hospital. This is their version of a
Happy New Year.
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Wawa |
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Anj Macalanda
Philippines
2015 / 0:10:00 A young boy's journey as they lay his father to his final resting place.
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Junelyn Has |
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Carlo Francisco Manatad
Philippines
2015 / 0:14:30
The papal visit has left dancers in a nightclub jobless. While
waiting for the Pope to leave, Junilyn is forced to practice a few
tricks her boss picked up from Thailand. Soon she realizes that there
is no liberty in escape and that true freedom lies in being bold.
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Sky is everywhere |
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Ralph Aldrin Quijano
Philippines
201? / 0:07:37 After losing his father, the son reflects on the things left for
him: a widowed mother, an inherited disease and a life to live or
leave.
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Memories of a life Salida line |
Handumanan Sa usa ka Salida badlis sa kinabuhi |
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Ivan Karol Martinez
Philippines
2014 / 0:06:48
Handumanan sa usa ka salida takes its title from the popular Cebuano radio drama Handumanan sa usa ka awit (Memories of a song). The film is a short lo-fi ode to Cebuano cinema or popular culture in general, and the long history of disappearance that this cinema has endured. The project is part fantasy about and part plea to all possible futures of the many histories of Cebuano cinema.
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Geography Lessons |
Lisyun qng geografia |
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Petersen Vargas
Philippines
2014 / 0:20:00
Before leaving his hometown Pampanga for good, Tib chances upon an
old map that triggers him to retrace the places that are special to
him and his high school best friend Tric.
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Swirl |
Swirl |
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Petersen Vargas
Philippines
2014 / 0:03:32
Two girls fall in and out of love in the streets of Manila.
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Polding's Gun without Gunpowder |
Ang Baril ni Polding nga walay
pulbura |
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Albert Egot
Philippines
2014 / 0:35:00
Polding is a homeless person with disability who only lives with his makeshift bicycle helping him to move around. Despite all the bullying and trials of life, Polding remains happy, contented and a fighter. He protects himself using the gun without gunpowder and his ability to infect others to be happy through his charming attitude.
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Axel Estein |
Curator |
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Axel Estein studied Japanology, History, Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. Founding member, co-publisher of Splatting Image. Organizer of Howl: Weekend of Fear film festivals (1991 – 1995). Consulting, curating, organizing festivals like Exground, Asian Hot Shots, Interfilm, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Tampere Film Festival Philippine Focus and many other events since 1989. Contributor to various printed and web-based matter (national, international). Lecturer (national, international). Organized first complete retrospectives of Lav Diaz (2008) and Brillante Mendoza (2010) in Germany. Recenty curates in cooperation with Philippine governmental bodies a comprehensive Retrospective of Philippine cinema scheduled for 2014 in Berlin. Member of NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema). Served on juries for several film festivals worldwide. Lives in Berlin and Manila.
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November 26 - December 6, 2015
The FISDN presents film secions focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition. This refuse is an act of resistance against the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes.
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