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QCinema Pride Film Festival 2026 returns with seven award-winning features

The QCinema Pride Film Festival returns this June with a lineup of seven acclaimed LGBTQIA+ features from nine countries, bringing together stories of love, identity, desire, belonging, and resistance from some of the most exciting voices in contemporary cinema. The program features recent winners from film festivals in Berlin, Busan, Jeonju, and Manila, spanning romance, psychological drama, comedy, animation, and thriller.

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Four Shorts to Headline QCinema International Film Festival

For the first time, a short film program will kick off the QCinema International Film Festival. Now in its 12th edition, the festival will open with the Asian premiere of Directors’ Factory Philippines, an omnibus film project initiated by Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. The film debuted at the 77th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. 

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Malaysian Film Leads QCinema 2023’s Asian Next Wave Winners

Malaysian Malay-language body horror Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell Eu is QCinema International Film Festival’s big winner for 2023. The film scooped the grand prize, the Asian Next Wave Best Picture, and the Best Director Award for Amanda Nell Eu.   The film was hailed for leading a distinctive cinematic trend that merges horror with profound social …

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QCinema Names Entries for 2023 Asian Next Wave Competition

QCinema International Film Festival announces the titles competing in its premiere launching pad for Asia’s most promising filmmakers. This year’s Asian Next Wave competition showcases eight exciting feature film directorial debuts competing for the Pylon Award. First is Abang Adik by Jin Ong.  Abang Adik is about deaf-mute Abang and younger brother Adi who live …

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QCinema Launches First Project Market: Opens Networking and Funding Opportunities for PH and  Southeast Asian Filmmakers

QCinema International Film Festival is set to provide another opportunity for Filipino and Southeast Asian filmmakers to reach a global audience as it launches the QCinema Project Market.   The QCinema Project Market (QPM) is a platform for Southeast Asian filmmakers and producers to secure funding, expand their networks, gain exposure, develop their skills, and contribute …

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Cinema ’76 Film Society reopens new branch with QCinema International Film Festival

It’s a double celebration this November as Cinema ’76 Film Society finally reopens their new branch in Tomas Morato with a lineup of movies from the 10th QCinema International Film Festival. The popular micro-cinema will have its soft launch opening from November 23-25, screening some of the fest’s most sought-after titles under the Asian Next …

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Auteurs Take the Spotlight in QCinema’s Screen International

The late French New Wave director, Jean-Luc Godard, once said that “with mobile phones and whatever, everyone is now an auteur.” In QCinema’s specially-curated section, Screen International, however, the bar is certainly set higher as it showcases the world’s renowned directors whose distinctive styles make their acclaimed works undeniably their own. David Cronenberg, Canada’s body …

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