The National Commission for Culture and the Arts is closing the National Arts Month by putting the spotlight on regional cinema through Cinema Rehiyon.
From Compostela Valley last year, the four-day film festival is celebrating its 10th year here in Manila by presenting film screenings, artists talks, forums, and seminars for free from Feb. 25 to 28. Everything this festival offers is all for the promotion of regional cinema and the weight it contributes to the Philippine cinema by and large.
It’s also a platform for films from different regions of our archipelagic country, which are mostly produced in the local languages and are showing culturally-rooted narratives.
Here’s the schedule for Cinema Rehiyon:
Feb 25
Opening program — 1 p.m. at the EVIA Lifestyle Center in Las Piñas City.
Films screening — Babylon by Cebuano filmmaker Keith Deligero
Dapol tan payawar na Tayug 1931 (The Ashes and Ghosts of Tayug 1931) by Pangasinan-rooted director Christopher Gozum.
Forum — Cinema X: The Future of Philippine Cinema
Feb 26
Venues: Cinematheque Manila, De La Salle University,
Feb 27
Venues: Cinematheque Manila, University of the Philippines Manila, Far Eastern University
Feb 28
Venues: Cinematheque Manila, University of the Philippines Diliman Film Center, University of Makati
For more information, contact 0916-2152591 or [email protected].
Photos courtesy of Cinema Rehiyon
Featured image screengrabbed from Babylon Trailer
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Writer: YAZHMIN MALAJITO
