I live at the intersection of yearning, subtitles, Hong Kong New Wave, and pansit batil-patung. In dialogue with cinema that dares to disrupt, disobey, and decolonize.
Pelikultura: The CALABARZON Film Festival returns for its 2025 run with new stories and forms of storytelling about Southern Tagalog. The festival is more than a celebration of Southern Tagalog’s pride and diversity, but also a reminder of how cinema is a form of resistance that mirrors the lived realities of the people living in the region. ST Shorts Premiere and #BuhayElbi are the festival's main highlights, highlighting stories about the region as well as homegrown storytellers from Los Baños, where the festival started. Pelikultura continues to become a platform for regional filmmakers and a catalyst for driving regional cinema representation.
The 37th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video featured official entries are now available to stream on Cinemata! A total of more than 100 featured official entries are available to stream at Cinemata. Gawad Alternatibo continues to be firm in its principal objective of screening every film entry.
Thirteen short films took center stage at Sine Pop as ALT-R HEROES 2025 capped a six-month journey across cities and communities, celebrating cinema of social consciousness and stories from the margins.
Ginselebrar sang ikaduwa nga edisyon sang Bacolod Film Festival ang ila Awards Night sang Nobyembre 29, 2025 sa SM Cinema 1, siyudad sang Bacolod. Ini ang kulminasyon sang festival subong nga tuig nga nagadayaw sang sine sang Bacolodnon.
The second edition of the Bacolod Film Festival celebrated its Awards Night last November 29, 2025, at SM Cinema 1, Bacolod City. This event was the culmination of this year’s festival honoring the Bacolod film scene.
Palm City Film Festival wrapped up its third edition in Tagum City, showcasing films by Mindanaoan students and celebrating peace, unity, and creativity. The festival ran from November 17 to 22, concluding with an awards ceremony.
For its inaugural year, Lantaw-Iliyan Film Festival ran from November 12 to 15, 2025, beginning with a two-day workshop at Digital Creatives Hub Iligan, Iligan City: a welcoming space where emerging filmmakers learn and grow together, and start seeing their stories from a shared and more meaningful perspective.
Regional cinema took center stage as Pelikultura: The CALABARZON Film Festival 2025 brought together new and rising filmmakers from Southern Tagalog last November 5-7 at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
Palm City Film Festival 2025 presents its official lineup in Tagum City, celebrating young storytellers with the theme ‘Films & Stories in the City of Harmony, A Platform for Peace and Unity.
Ngilngig 2025 pulled Davao back into its orbit of the fantastic: five days where time reversed, stories shimmered, and the weird found its way home.
The 37th Gawad CCP Para sa Alternatibong Pelikula at Video finalists are now available to stream on Cinemata from October 23, 2025, to January 4, 2026!
The wait is over—the official lineup and program are unveiled! The 9th Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival 2025, organized by Davao-based film collective Pasalidahay, unfolds this October with 56 short films from across Asia.
Last September 24 to 30, the 7th Sinag Maynila Film Festival showed 61 feature-length and short films with the theme “Sine Lokal, Pang-Internasyonal!” Check out the winners, a bit about its opening film, and the restored Lino Brocka classic ‘Jaguar.’
ABANTE BOHOL! With a desire to empower and bring Bol-anon filmmakers together, the province of Bohol formally launched its very first film festival, Sine Bohol, on September 10, 2025, at Panda Tea Garden Suites, Tagbilaran City.
Beyond its 12-year milestone, NABIFILMEX threads deeper into the regions, spotlighting the voices and visions that grow from the ground up.
Kinse na! Rolling into its 15th year, Cinemagis continues to nurture and recognize Mindanaoan filmmakers. The Northern Mindanao Film Festival empowers to produce a significant body of work that leads to national recognition, contributes to the growth of the Mindanao film industry, and bridges the rivers of Mindanao as it goes invitational.
GB Sampedro, the director behind ‘Astig,’ is back in action as he leads the Sinag Maynila 2025 entry, ‘Selda Tres.’ The action-drama movie stars Cesar Montano, Carla Abellana, and JM De Guzman.
The kids are alright! The 8th Sine Kabataan Short Film Festival, which happened last September 5 to 7, highlighted 10 films of diverse narratives and regional origins, each one highlighting unique issues experienced by Filipino youth. Here are the winners.
From the strange to the supernatural, Bakunawa Fest highlighted mindbending films last September 5-6 at the Negros Museum, Bacolod City.
Filipino-Australian filmmaker James J. Robinson won best director for his debut feature First Light at the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival.
After 3 years, the 5th Oroquieta Film Festival (Aug 21–23) wrapped up, amplifying voices from Misamis Occidental and beyond. From Lumayagan to Habagatan shorts, small stories made big waves for regional cinema.
Manen aglayag atoy a tawen. The Hundred Islands Film Festival is now in its fifth edition, featuring a new batch of Alaminos filmmakers creating shorts, with Green Bones, MMFF 2024 Best Picture, to open the festival.
Nag-anunsyar ang Sine Negrense nga may palaabuton sila nga guerrilla filmmaking workshop sa Agosto 30-31 sa siyudad sang Bacolod. Mapartisipar diri ang mga napili nga aplikante halin sa Negros nga gusto mabal-an paano mag-ubra pelikula.
(Sine Negrense announced their upcoming guerrilla filmmaking workshop this August 30 to 31 at Bacolod City. Selected applicants from Negros with an inclination for film creation will be participating.)
Thirty Alaminos students honed stop motion animation skills using mobile phones and recyclable materials at the Hundred Islands Film Festival workshop led by Rosevie Sevilla.
The pulse of Philippine student cinema beats strong at POV XXI! From regional voices to alternative perspectives, the festival spotlighted 12 finalists, with 9 films in competition and 3 from the senior high school category—here are the winners.
UP Film Institute nearly filled its 745-seater Cine Adarna during the free screening of Lino Brocka’s ‘Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag’ on its 50th anniversary release last July 16—wrapping up with a surprise talkback from Bembol Roco, star of the 1975 classic.
Filmmaker Ben Yalung (‘Kristo,’ ‘Ama Namin’) will be directing a film on Venerable Teofilo Camomot, a Cebuano archbishop who has touched the lives of many through his life of miracles and pious work.
2025’s first four MMFF films include Vice Ganda and Nadine Lustre, filmmakers new to the festival, and the return of an iconic horror franchise.
EXCLUSIVE: 2025 Cinemalaya entry Paglilitis announces its cast, led by Jackie Lou Blanco, Leo Martinez, Eula Valdez, and Rissey Reyes-Robinson in character photos shared by the team to SINEGANG.ph. Filming is currently underway in Quezon City and Rizal.
A night to commemorate the bustling creativity often overlooked in these 7,641 islands—here are the winners of the inaugural FAMAS Short Film Festival.
IAnimate, a film festival by FDCP centered on animated films, kicks off today, April 24, and will run until May 7, 2025. Here is the list of films to anticipate.
Running from April 24 to 26 and taking place in Looc, Romblon, the Talabukon Film Festival debut makes waves for Romblon regional cinema and is now bringing cinema closer to the local community.
