Film Talk and Film Screenings
This year at KinoFest, we're thrilled to present the
KinoFest Special: Cinematic Connection with the Philippines. This special program honors the dynamic and diverse collaborations between the Philippines and Germany, highlighting their shared cinematic history and creative partnerships across multiple formats.
The KinoFest Special program kicks off with an engaging panel discussion featuring Filipino filmmakers Cris Bringas (Huling Palabas, 2024), Moira Lang (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, 2005), and Alex Poblete (The Ebb of Forgetting, 2015), moderated by media archivist, filmmaker, and musician, Mariah Reodica. This will be followed by a series of film screenings of our 5 curated films:
City of Flowers (2022),
Filipiñana (2020),
Hito (2023),
I Don't Want to Be Just a Memory (2024), and
Huling Palabas (2024). After the screenings, an after-party featuring DJane and sound artist T33G33 will be held.
Date: September 28, 2024
Time: 4:30PM onwards
FREE ADMISSION
About the panelists
Cris Bingas is a Filipino filmmaker who narrativizes spaces through intimate character work, blending documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches. His works, both as a director and creative producer, have been presented at the Berlinale, Locarno, DOK Leipzig, LAAPFF, Granada, Busan, Singapore, and SeaShorts, among others.
Moira Lang is a screenwriter and producer who has worked on such trailblazing films as Patay na si Hesus (Jesus is Dead), Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (Norte, the End of History), Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington! (Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings), and Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros). Maximo premiered at Sundance 2006 and Norte at Cannes 2013. Distributed internationally, both were Best International Film nominees at the Film Independent Spirit Awards--the first Filipino films to receive this distinction--and were the Philippines' official entries to the Oscars. Lang has taught screenwriting and producing at the University of the Philippines, the De La Salle University College of Saint Benilde, and the Asia Pacific Film Institute. She continues to mentor and to develop new material for film, while indulging her other great passion (music) as an amateur DJ. You can find her playlists on Spotify under the name DJ Lang (moira).
Alex Poblete is an independent film and video producer/line producer. Her body of work includes The Ebb of Forgetting (Pardi Di Domani, 68th Locarno International Film Festival); Dayang Asu (ASEAN International Film Festival & Awards 2017); and The Sweet Taste of Salted Bread and Undies (Belize IFF 2019 & Calella FF 2020). In 2014, she was selected to participate in the ASEAN-ROK: Film Leaders Incubator FLY2014 in Myanmar where she became the recipient of the Busan Bank Scholarship, a production grant given at the end of the workshop. A Full Circle Lab: Creative Producers Program and EAVE Ties that Bind fellow, she continues to pursue her producing work through developing various shorts and feature films for local and international co-production. She is also currently working as a Program Director for Active Vista Center, an education center for human rights in the Philippines and as Festival Director of its Active Vista Human Rights Festival. As part of her work, she attended the Venice Summer School Cinema and Human Rights Advocacy last 2019 and was also invited as a jury member for the Dutch Movies Matter Section of the Movies that Matter Film Festival in the Netherlands.
Mariah Reodica is a media archivist, filmmaker, and musician residing in Manila, Philippines. She has had artist residencies at the Asia Culture Center Gwangju, and the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. She has also played her music on tours around Luzon, Visayas, Japan, Bangkok, and Singapore, and is currently working on the sophomore record of her band, The Buildings.
KinoFest After Party
t33g33 a.k.a. Alyana Cabral (she/they) is a DJ, producer, and sound artist from the Philippines. Wholly immersed in Manila’s underground culture, she helps shape the current sonic sensibilities of local nightlife, through organizing and performing at parties with queer-powered platform, Elephant.
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