Lineup: 2014 QC film festival

MANILA, Philippines – In celebration of its diamond jubilee year, Quezon City is holding the QCinema International Film Festival, set for November 5-11 at Trinoma mall.

Thirty-eight film,s including major Oscar contenders, are part of the line-up, including films created with production grants, and children’s classics.

Here are some of the films to be be shown during the festival.

Alienasyon

 

 

A UP professor finds himself reminiscing the precious history of his homeland.

1st ko si 3rd 

 

Cory, a retired government employee, crosses paths again with her first love Third (Freddie Webb), and she finds herself conflicted about feelings from their past.(READ: 1st Ko Si 3rd: Looking back on love, regrets, the past) 

Nick and Chai (documentary)

 

A couple tries to move on with their lives after their children die during the worst of Super Typhoon Haiyan.

Ang Di Paglimot ng mga Alaala

 

A film examining memories and the act of forgetting (or un-forgetting).   A woman recalls the memories her mother left as she struggles to preserve happy memories and un-remember painful ones.

Little Azkals

 

 

The documentary focuses on kids who were selected to be part of a football team under the Philippine Football Federation for the Little Azkals Under-11 group.

Bigkis

 

LJ Reyes plays Mariel, a teenager dealing with her unplanned pregnancy. The movie also looks into the realities of overcrowded public hospitals.

In Darkness We Trust  

 

A bank robbery goes wrong and the perpetrators go into hiding. They soon find themselves in an old dilapidated house occupied by a mysterious woman and her grandmother, unaware of the danger in the night.

Mauban: Ang Resiko 

 

Residents in a small island community set aside a portion of their salary for merriment. During a celebration, trouble begins and things go awry. 

Tres

 

Three stories of literary adaptations brought to life by three directors.

Meanwhile, the international films scheduled to be shown in the festival are: 

• 52 Tuesdays – Australia
• Ida – Poland
• Jauja – Argentina
• Leviathan – Russia
• Mommy – Canada
• The Don Juans –Czech Republic
• Two Days, One Night –Belgium

Also to be screeened are these films in partnership with the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board.  These are:

• Boses by Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil
• Bunso: The Youngest by Ditsi Carolino 
• RPG Metanoia by Luis C. Suarez
• Children of Heaven by Majid Majidi
• Dance Without Music by Li Jixian
• Not One Less by Zhang Yimou
• The Color Of Paradise by Majid Majidi

The  embassy of the Netherlands will also hold a premier of the movie Lilet Never Happened on November 6, 6:00 PM. The film, which won Best Youth Film in the Copenhagen Buster Film Festival, tells the story of  Sandy Talag or Lilet, a child sex worker.

The festival will also award Cecille Baun, a renowned prosthetic make-up artist for her outstanding contributions to the film industry.  An exhibit of her work will also be part of the festival. – Rappler.com