Filipino films at TIFF
Filipino films at TIFF
Schedule of Filipino films in the 2011 TIFF
SCENE from Siglo ng Pagluluwal (Century of the Birthing), directed by Lav Diaz, who was born in Datu Paglas in the Philippines and studied at the Mowelfund Film Institute. His feature debut, The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion (98), played in the Festival’s Discovery programme in 1999.
SIGLO NG PAGLULUWAL (CENTURY OF BIRTHING)
One of the most influential and audacious filmmakers, Lav Diaz returns to this Festival with this epic meditation on the role of the artist and the rise of fundamentalism in the world today. His subject, a filmmaker, struggles to finish his latest work, while dealing with pressure from his co-workers, festival programmers, girlfriends and the press.
Saturday September 10 – AMC 5 – 12:30pm
Sunday September 18 – AMC 4 – 12:30pm
Cuchera, directed by Joseph Israel Laban. Laban is a journalist and independent filmmaker. He studied creative writing at the University of the Philippines and journalism at New York University’s Arthur Carter Journalism Institute.
CUCHERA
One of the most shocking debuts in recent Filipino cinema, Joseph Israel Laban’s Cuchera deals with the grim fate of low-rent drug mules.
Sunday September 11 – AMC 10 – 6:45pm
Tuesday September 13 – AMC 1 – 2:15pm
Sunday September 18 – TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 – 9:30pm
ISDA (Fable of the Fish), directed by Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr. Borinaga Alix Jr. was born in Makati City in the Philippines. He graduated from the University of the City of Manila with a degree in mass communications. His films include Donsol (06), Kadin (07), Drumbeat (07), Batanes (co-director, 07), Daybreak (08), Adela (08), which screened at the festival, Aurora (09), The Affair (10), Chassis (10), Presa (10) and Fable of the Fish (11).
ISDA (FABLE OF THE FISH)
Breathtaking in the assured manner it weaves naturalist and magic realist elements, Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.’s tragicomic Fable of the Fish examines belief, specifically the curious conflation of folk tales, urban myths and Christianity unique to the Philippines.
Saturday September 10 – AMC 7 – 3:00pm
Sunday September 11 – AMC 4 – 7:00pm
Sunday September 18 – AMC 7 – 1:00pm
Source of photos: TIFF site and films sites.
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