Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge

Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge 2024

1

In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is revisited in the light of early silent films.

2024

The Imminent Immanent

The Imminent Immanent 2018

8.00

As a typhoon bears down on a sleepy rural town in the Philippines, strange events and even stranger behaviour foreshadow the watery catastrophe to come.

2018

Balangiga: Howling Wilderness

Balangiga: Howling Wilderness 2017

9.00

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses and together, the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.

2017

Makbetamaximus

Makbetamaximus 2024

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“Double, double, toil and trouble,” indeed! Shakespeare’s punchiest tragedy gets a makeover in a way that only the prodigious Filipino multi-hyphenate Khavn De La Cruz could deliver. Unfolding in the Municipality of Marcos, Ilocos Norte and Khavn’s own Burroughsian Interzone of Mondomanila – also the title of the director’s crazed horror-comedy-crime drama, which premiered at IFFR 2012 – this mash-up of styles, genres, moods and atmospheres features a cast of over 100 performers and defies any easy description, even with so familiar a text. But as Khavn says of his source material, "Usually, word is king. Here, text is just one of the many cogs. It’s a column, a roof shingle, an ornament."

2024

Orphea

Orphea 2021

4.00

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

2021

Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni

Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni 2021

1

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).

2021

KULOB34

KULOB34 2020

8.00

Kulob is everyone who believes in nothing

2020