QCinema is the official film festival of Quezon City, the City of the Stars. The festival showcases local and international films, documentaries, and short films, and gives grants to their creators.
COMPETITION SECTION
Coverage of the Asian Next Wave, QCShorts and QCSEA Shorts section are found here.
NON-COMPETITION SECTION
Coverage of other categories (Screen International, New Horizons, RainbowQC, Special Screenings, Before Midnight, Digitally Restored Classics, Asian Shorts) can be found here.
PRESS RELEASES
QCinema is coming back, more intense than ever, on its tenth anniversary with a lineup that is sure to make movie lovers happy to be alive this festive season.
QCinema continues to highlight notable LGBT films of up-and-coming Filipino directors with this year’s RainbowQC shorts—with a lineup that surely showcases diverse portraits of the LGBTQ experience.
QCinema is coming back, more intense than ever, on its tenth anniversary with a lineup that is sure to make movie lovers happy to be alive this festive season.
Cherie Gil’s last film, ‘Elehiya,’ is one of the films playing in this year's Asian Next Wave main competition of QCinema. The competition is making its eagerly anticipated comeback in the 10th special edition of the festival after a two-year absence.
From Nov. 17–26, the 10th QCinema International Film Festival will honor the classics. The event will feature newly restored versions of ‘Itim’ and ‘Kisapmata,’ as well as the 4k restoration of ‘In the Mood for Love.’
FILM FEATURES
Hopefully more people would see this gem, with the knowledge of actually seeing Before, Now and Then instead of watching this because it was mistakenly projected.
Wong Kar-Wai’s new 4K restoration of “In the Mood for Love” mutes its ravishing reds and replaces it with a tint of ambivalent green. This shifts the mood from romance to ambivalence, with more of a focus on each character’s individual processing of trauma and less on their warm connection with one another. It also further amplifies its sense of tragedy.
ARCHIVES
Articles about previous iterations of the QCinema Film Festival can be found here!
