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Thursday, April 23, 2009

entry arrow7:04 PM | Three Cheers for Cannes!



I cannot help but be wowed: there are three -- three -- Filipino films screening in Cannes 2009! Brillante Mendoza's Kinatay is in Official Competition (together with such luminaries as Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodovar, Ang Lee, Ken Loach, Chan-Wook Park, Michael Haneke, Alan Resnais, Jane Campion, Lars von Trier, and others), Raya Martin's Independencia is in Un Certain Regard (where directors new to the festival have to debut before they can get into the official competition in future festivals), and Adolfo Alix Jr. and Raya Martin's Manila has a Special Screening! [Download the official list in the Cannes site.]

Is the Philippines finally back in the cinematic world map after a long, long drought? Oh yes we are!

(And, Raya, ang long hair mo!)

Here are the official trailers of Independencia and Manila...




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