QCinema 11 levels up

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In its eleventh year, the QCinema International Film Festival continues its growth as a major player in the international festival scene, adding new sections and new programs that aim to elevate every Filipino festival-goer’s experience.

This year’s edition of QCinema has again some of the most acclaimed films on the festival circuit in its lineup, including festival award-winners and Oscars entries.

The opening film is the Golden Lion winner in this year’s prestigious Venice Film Festival – “Poor Things.”

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Headlined by Emma Stone, this astonishing new feature by Yorgos Lanthimos is a dark sexy comedy, set in Victorian-era London, about a resurrected woman who embarks on a fantastical journey in reinventing herself.

Director Lanthimos is no stranger to QCinema where his “Killing of a Sacred Deer” had its Asian premiere in 2018.

Closing the festival is “The Breaking Ice” by Anthony Chen, Singapore’s entry to the 2024 Academy Awards.

The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section, highlighting emerging art-house directors and daring films. The Generation Z drama follows the relationships of three tourists over a snowy city.

Director Anthony Chen had also been part of our festival with his 2018 film, The Wet Season, as QCinema’s closing film that year.

The 10-day festival, slated from November 17 to 29, also features 60 other titles, divided in 10 sections, including three competition sections.

Its main competition section, the Asian Next Wave, has 10 directorial debuts from Asian filmmakers. The section includes Cannes, Venice, and Udine award-winners and two Oscars entries.

These films vying for a Pylon Award are Abang Adik by Jin Ong, Gitling by Jopy Arnaldo, Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell by Thien An Pham, Last Shadow At First Light by Nicole Midori Woodford, Love Is A Gun by Lee Hong-chi, Mimang by Kim Tae-yang, Solids By The Seashore by Patiparn Boontarig, and Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell Eu.

Its two other competition sections are for short films, which are QCShorts and QCSEA.

Venice Grand Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Award winner “Evil Does not Exist” by Ryusuke Hamaguchi is also in this year’s Screen International.

This section also has Cannes Jury Prize winner at the Palme d’Or Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Perfect Days by Wim Wenders, and Best Director winner The Taste of Things by Trí¢n Anh.

Also in this section is Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winner Afire by Christian Petzold. Completing the lineup are Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers and Sweet Dreams by Ena Sendijarević.

In New Horizons, five films, all directorial debuts, make up the section.

Lav Diaz returns to QCinema at the Special Screenings section with his film “Essential Truths of the Lake.”

Screenings will be held at the cinemas of Gateway Mall, Robinsons Magnolia, UP Town Center, Shangri-la Plaza, and Power Plant Mall.

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