ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
After its international premiere at the 16th Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France last year, National Artist for Film Lino Brocka’s neo-noir crime classic, “Jaguar” (restored) comes back home to the Philippines to open the 7th Sinag Maynila Independent Film Festival.
For its 13th year, the QCinema International Film Festival (QCIFF) is opening its doors for a third year in a row to six emerging critics from all over the Philippines to participate in the QCinema Critics Lab from November 13-17, 2025.
Two years after his groundbreaking animated feature “Iti Mapukpukaw” was hailed as Best Film at the 19th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Carl Joseph Papa is back in the circuit with another animated offering ‘The Next 24 Hours.’
Continuing the tradition of bold storytelling, the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival sets sail once more from October 3 to 12, propelled by the unwavering strength of the Filipino spirit amidst change and turbulent times.
Beat the deadline! On September 10, 2025, Wednesday, at 11:59 pm, the application window for the Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival full-length category officially closes. With the largest production grants in Philippine festival history up for grabs, filmmakers must seize this chance to secure their place on the country’s fast-rising cinematic stage.
The third edition of the prestigious Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival is once again open to aspiring filmmakers, this time without imposing restrictions on genre, topic, or theme. In previous years, the festival centered around wholesome, inspiring stories that were crafted with the theme “mga kwentong panalo ng buhay.”
Sigrid Bernardo’s Pushcart Tales, from the inaugural Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival, has been selected as an official entry to the Thailand’s Pattaya Film Festival 2025. Set to run from August 28-30, 2025, the festival has been envisioned to transform the coastal Thai city of Pattaya into a prestigious and buzzing hub for cinematic achievement in Asia.
The team behind Elephant Paths presents its official poster and its official trailer. Directed by Joshua de Vera, the highly-anticipated film is an official entry in Sine Kabataan 8, a short film festival organized by the Film Development Council of the Philippines.
5 feature films, 4 documentaries, 11 student documentaries, 16 short films and 25 student short films, the Sinag Maynila Independent Film Festival continues to champion stories made by Filipinos for the Filipinos.
In its seventh year, the festival will run from September 24 to 30 at Gateway Cineplex 18, Robinsons Manila, Robinsons Antipolo, SM Fairview, and SM Mall of Asia. The ticket price is P250.
This September, the spotlight shines on the women who shaped, led and transformed our cinema as the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) celebrates Philippine Film Industry Month (PFIM) 2025 with a vibrant lineup of programs and events for all kinds of Filipino cineastes.