FACINE25: The 25th Annual Filipino Cine Festival
First show: October 19
FACINE 25: The 25th Annual Filipino Cine Festival presents:
Friday, October 19th
TU PUG IMATUY
7pm
Tu Pug Imatuy follows Lumad couple Obunay and Dawin, who are uprooted from their traditional way of life after a military encounter.
BOMBA
9pm
Pipo makes ends meet by taking on the toughest jobs. Life is more difficult because he’s deaf, supporting himself and his teenage lover.
Saturday, October 20th
A story about an unexpected connection between a Filipino and a Taiwanese aborigine who are both in search of their identities.
MEET ME IN ST.GALLEN
4:30pm
Celeste (Bela Padilla) assumes the name “Katy Perry” whenever she hangs out at coffee shops, meets Jesse (Carlo Aquino), just like the couple in the American romantic-comedy drama film Celeste and Jesse Forever. Their time spent together results in a one-night stand. Will they reunite sometime, somewhere?
THE FAMILY THAT DOESN’T WEEP
7pm
A lonesome and alcoholic woman attempts to fulfill a local legend about the Family That Doesn’t Weep with the help of her nanny and her nanny’s uncle in the hopes of reuniting her own estranged family.
MELODRAMA
9:30pm
A feminist documentarian, a pick up artist and a virgin’s lives collide. Blood will be shed on the neon-lit streets of Melbourne.
Sunday, October 21st
A coming-of-age story of a friendless and smart high school sophomore, who lives in post-lahar Pampanga in the late 1990s. His life takes a turn after the two new half-American students, the Snyder brothers, transfer to his school.
KITA KITA
4:30pm
A blind woman falls in love with a man who uses kindness and humor to make a connection with her.
PAUWI NA
7pm
The film follows an ailing man, a thief, a dog, a blind pregnant woman and Jesus Christ while the family goes through a tragi-comic journey of self-discovery as they decide to pedal their way from Manila to Bicol.
Festival passes (6-film or Full Festival Pass) available here
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