October 25-31, 2019
Videotheque
UPFI Film Center, Magsaysay Avenue, UP Diliman Campus, 1101 Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
From Visayas to Manila, the UP Film Institute is bringing #Binisaya2019, a series of Binisaya films here to your #CampusCinema!
Don’t miss its special run at UPFI Film Center from October 25-31!
Oct 25 Fri
2 p.m. Binisaya Horizons 2019
4:30 p.m. Binisaya Shorts 2019 (Competition)
7 p.m. Huwebes Huwebes
Oct 26 Sat
4:30 p.m. Markado
Oct 28 Mon
2 p.m. Binisaya Shorts 2019 (Competition)
Oct 29 Tue
2 p.m. Binisaya Horizons 2019
Oct 30 Wed
2 p.m. Binisaya Asian Shorts 2019
Oct 31 Thurs
12 p.m. A Short History of a Few Bad Things*
2 p.m. Huwebes Huwebes
Ticket: P100 / P150*
Available at the cinema entrance as early as one hour before screen time.
“A Short History Of a Few Bad Things”
Directed by: Keith Deligero
trt: 1hr 30mins
In the southern Philippine city of Cebu a troubled detective struggles to solve a series of grisly killings, while a deep conspiracy works to keep the truth just out of his reach.
“Huwebes Huwebes”
Directed by: Januar Yap, Kris Villarino & Don Frasco trt: 1 hr & 9 mins
The culminating film of The BINISAYA Adlaw-adlaw series
BINISAYA Horizons 2019
(shorts from all over the archipelago)
trt: 1hrs 45mins
“Viral Kids” – Arjanmar H. Rebeta (Camarines Sur)
Trending stories of five different street children who have their own past and dreams but being hindered and utilized by an unknown force behind the online scheme.
“Siyudad sa Bulawan” – Jarell Serencio (Davao)
Three young brothers needing cash take a job in the gold mines of Mt. Diwalwal amidst a life threatening reality.
“Ang Nagliliyab na Kasaysayan ng Pamilya Dela Cruz“- Miguel Louie de Guzman (Batangas)
After a series of terrible incidents, the Dela Cruz family now has to make a decision that will alter the history of their family.
“Mountain to Cry For” – Khurshid Kalabud Jr. (General Santos)
The Filmmaker and his parents reflect on the Tausug identity and conundrums of diaspora
“Fish Out of Water” – Mon Garilao (Bulacan)
Minjae is a Korean-Filipino teenager who is often discriminated against for being mixed-blood. His utmost desire to belong to the homogeneous and hierarchical Korean society is tested when his single Filipina mother decides to send him to the Philippines one winter day.
“Nangungupahan” – Glenn Barit (Tuguegarao)
Follows the interwoven lives of people who occupy a single room of an apartment through different points of its life.
BINISAYA ASIAN Shorts 2019
trt: 1hr 42mins
“A Cold Summer Night” – Yash Sawant (India)
An ordinary night starts to turn wildly dramatic for Ketan, a Maharashtrian migrant, when an anonymous attack on his car congregates excessive attention in the conformist Goan neighbourhood. Dreadful coldness knocks when the entire locality is calling out to Ketan and he’s stuck with his paramour in his small rented room while his pregnant wife is away at her parents house.
“Death of the Sound Man” – Sorayos Prapapan (Thailand)
Voice of the people are often neglected, same as sound in film that audience don’t care. Two sound recordists are working on final mix of a short film. Will their sound be heard by someone?
“Krampon” – Abdullah Şahin (Turkey)
Ilyas and Ahmet are two close friends. Syrian refugee Emir joins them. Ilyas wants to make the tryouts for a local football team and and saves money to buy new cleats. Emir shares his ideal. After seeing his father pays the debts of Emir’s family’s to the grocery Ilyas gives his new cleats as a gift to Emir in order to joins to the tryouts. However, his own cleats tear up just after. The shoemaker gives him a bigger cleats temporarily. The tryouts morning Ilyas’ cleats drops to a river. When Ilyas and Ahmet try to take the cleats out, Emir surprises them with what he’s done.
“War For Keyboard Warriors” – Lam Can-zhao (China)
The Keyboard Warrior seeks to use the power imbued in his ‘weapon’ to effect death and destruction upon his foes. In essence, the keyboard allows the keyboard warrior to manifest his true warrior nature in a safe and removed environment, from which no real-life repercussions.
“Francis and Laika” – Mark Chua, Lam Li Shuen (Singapore)
A Singaporean boy and his family come to terms with the death of the family dog, following a chain of events sparked by fears of a nuclear emergency.
“Pulangui” – Bagane Fiola (Philippines)
On each of two flourishing Moro communities separated by a vast river are two brothers who feel a longing that is beyond the grasp of their content and idyll life. In the end, they seek the river to find their own peace.
“Avashesh” – Manoj Babu Panta (Nepal)
The Remains is a stream of consciousness progression of a hallucinatory experience of an old man .The old man living his last days in a small hut situated on the isolated riverbank has lost almost all the assets of his life .All he left is his aged skinny figure, an old hut and hazy childhood nostalgia which are also vanishing towards eternity gradually. The old man slowly paddles an old wooden boat in a mist covered river bank where he is frequently haunted by his childhood nostalgia. His own childhood image traps the old man in a fish net and they play a typical game on the riverbank. The senile old man hallucinates his own old hut vanished in the flame of fire, and his feeble body transformed into a gigantic fish.
