Winner of the Netpac Award for Full-length Category and the Best Actress honor for Max Eigenmann in the recent Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Anna Isabelle Matutina’s feature debut focuses on the hardships Filipino women face in a highly conservative and deeply patriarchal country, through a story about the issues a 40-year-old woman who gets pregnant faces.
“12 Days” screened at Cinemalaya
The said woman is named Alice, and is working in an Ngo that, as the story begins, is focusing on the consequences of the martial law in Mindanao. Despite some issues in her work, where she is not exactly appreciated, Alice’s biggest problems lie in her house, where she is desperately trying to break up from a toxic relationship with her musician boyfriend, Ben, but continuously fails, both due to his insistence not to leave but also due to her not being forceful enough in her decision. The...
“12 Days” screened at Cinemalaya
The said woman is named Alice, and is working in an Ngo that, as the story begins, is focusing on the consequences of the martial law in Mindanao. Despite some issues in her work, where she is not exactly appreciated, Alice’s biggest problems lie in her house, where she is desperately trying to break up from a toxic relationship with her musician boyfriend, Ben, but continuously fails, both due to his insistence not to leave but also due to her not being forceful enough in her decision. The...
- 8/20/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
After the international success of Erik Matti's On The Job - a selection of the Director's Fortnight program in Cannes - leading man Joel Torre returns to the crime genre with what promises to be another gritty, stylish affair.A selection of the 2013 CinemaOne Originals festival in the Philippines, Borgy Torre makes his feature debut with Kabisera with Torre starring as a family man who turns to the drug trade and gets caught in a cycle of violence as things spin out of control. Torre has long been one of the nation's most in-demand ad men and from the look of the trailer it's not at all hard to see why as the promo spot is excellent, firing on absolutely all cylinders.Art Acuña, Bing Pimentel,...
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- 10/30/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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