A ragtag group of students try to steal from the faculty room as they save both their grades and friendship. On the brink of failing high school, wayward best friends Omar and Joedel devise a risky plan to keep their graduation plans alive. With everything at stake, the odd duo take their final test of resiliency, street smarts, and most of all, friendship.
Directed By: Julius Renomeron Jr.
A gay teenager looks for a job in a world he is unaware of. Girly, an unemployed gay man, lives below poverty line with a passive mother and an abusive father. He later finds his mother being sexually harassed by her partner. His life changes when the abuses also happened to Girly and he has nothing left to do but to control his life forward.
Cast: Marcus Belisario, Gay Quililan, Lowell Kip Conales, Arrian Labios, Raion Sandoval, Claudia Enriquez, Giane Pascual, Nathan Ocampo, Cris Cruz, Rexzone Miguel, Jian Balderama
Writtend and Directed By: Gilb Baldoza
An aging lady shoemaker gets a visit from her first love who abandoned her for three decades. Grace, a 65-year-old widow, runs a shoe factory in Marikina, the Shoe Capital of the Philippines. One day, Elias, Grace’s first love and first heartbreak, returns to her doorstep, asking for a pair of custom-made shoes. Circumstances force Grace to make him his pair of shoes. And when she does, she starts to slowly uncover the very reason why Elias returns for her forgiveness. When heartache returns from years ago, will it heal wounds or will it lead to more cuts?
Cast: Sherry Lara, Soliman Cruz
Written By: Sonny Calvento
Directed By: Sheron Dayoc
Away from home, a young man shuffles between the responsibilities of being the eldest sibling in their apartment and reconnecting with his youngest brother who now lives with him. Paul, who struggles as a new member of the labor force, comes home to their rented space fuming because of the household mess that Carl, his youngest brother who just set foot in Manila to study, has left unattended. Paul berates him in annoyance, frustrated that he has to shuffle between working and being the eldest sibling who looks after their youngest and the space that they occupy. Unbeknownst to him, Carl is also struggling to adjust to the urban life away from home and their family who stays in the province. Before they know it, the distance between them becomes wider; the silence gets deafening, and the isolation gets glaring. Caught in a space that does not speak of home, Paul decides to recreate their space and change his faulty ways of dealing with his youngest brother.
Cast: Jude Matthew Servilla, John Vincent Servilla, Aireen Soriano, (voice), Marynor Madamisila (voice)
Written and Directed By: Glenn Averia
In a culture where designs are dreamt about and to be woven only by women, a T’boli man is challenged to face a cultural norm as the abaca goddess shows him a pattern to weave in his dreams. Grieving for the recent passing of his mother, a T’boli man from South Cotabato collects a series of patterns as an abaca goddess visits him in his dreams. He takes a journey of unearthing his history, making him disregard the consequences of defying a sanctified practice through secretly enduring the tedious process of weaving T’nalak – defining birth, life, marriage, and death, a sacred cloth only to be weaved by women.
Cast: Charlie Dulay, Jeanilyn Dulay, Armando Tan , Sebulan Dulay, Florencio Dulay
Written and Directed By: Shaira Advincula
In the midst of an ongoing siege, a reluctant child combatant finds a safe place to pray where he meets a newly orphaned, infidel boy who seeks refuge in the unknown. The city is in a state of siege. Masumah, a neophyte child combatant, tries to Outlast the day while still fulfilling one of the practices of his faith, salat al-‘isha - a prayer done before going to sleep. He finds a bombed house where he meets a newly orphaned, infidel boy who escapes from reality by reminiscing his mom’s lullaby. The two spends some time together, staring at a seemingly spectacular display of fireworks in the night sky.
Cast: Omar Sharief Udin, Bon Andrew Lentejas
Written and Directed By: Norvin De Los Santos
An elderly man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged son, but a mysterious black figure gets in the way. This animated film centers on Sixto and his son Alex, who comes home after years away. As Sixto tries to repair their relationship, an antagonizing black figure starts to invade his vision.
Cast: Rener Concepcion, Junjun Quintana, Karen Romualdez, Vincent Pajara
Written and Directed By: Josef Gacutan
The lone survivor of an ambush is being haunted by the war he survived. Rodel was the lone survivor of a failed operation by a group of soldiers led by the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Maguindanao. The soldiers were ambushed by the rebels, leaving only Rodel who hid behind the big trees surrounding the area of the ambush to survive. Although a survivor, Rodel faces the scar and trauma that the incident had left him.
Cast: Rocky Salumbides, Liya Sarmiento, Bon Andrew Lentejas, Ruby “Ube Lola” Daleon
Directed By: Harold Lance Pialda
Two brothers face their impending separation when an aunt who can’t bear a child offers to adopt the younger one. June, a 16-year-old farmer, lives with his mother Mina and his younger brother Mako near a pineapple field in Bukidnon. His aunt from Manila offers to adopt his brother Mako and let him study in a prestigious school. His mother is hesitant at first but later on agrees with the offer. Even if he is against it, June convinces Mako to go, thinking it would be best for his future. The two brothers now face their impending separation and think of ways they can spend every minute together before their aunt arrives.
Cast: Cid Madula Senoc, Kelvin John Lim, Sheila Zafra Labos
Written and Directed By: Don Senoc
A town captain
and his son investigate the disappearance of the townsmen in the woods and came
across a mysterious answer. Soliman, a town
captain, leads a search team to look for the missing people and investigate who
and where they are taken. As days pass by, Soliman’s team would come across
bodies with seemingly no souls. When the search failed and Soliman made his way
home, his son Dylan was aware that something was left behind. One dark evening,
Dylan knew Soliman had made it home, but it wasn’t really his father.
Cast: Soliman Cruz, Dylan Ray
Talon, Sheryll Ceasico, Stefanoni Nunag
Written and Directed By: Francis Guillermo
Cinemalaya
2019 runs from Aug 2-11 2019 at various venues of the CCP and August 7
to 13, at selected Ayala Cinemas and Vista Malls in Manila, Pampanga,
Naga and Legaspi in Bicol, Bacolod, Iloilo and Davao.
No comments:
Post a Comment