November 22-28: Power Plant Mall and Black Maria Cinema
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Cinema One Originals 2017 will feature the following competition films: Haunted: A Last Visit to the Red House, Bundok Banahaw, Sacred and Profane, Si Chedeng at si Apple, Paki (Please • Care), Nervous Translation, Historiographika Errata, Changing Partners, Throwback Today & Nay
Directed by Phyllis Grande
SI CHEDENG AT SI APPLE
"A film about two friends who are both in their 60s. In the wake of her husband's death, Chedeng, 66, decides to come out of the closet. Her best friend Apple, 63, beheads her live-in partner in a fit of rage. Bound by friendship, the two elderly women, together with the severed head placed inside a Louis Vuitton bag, set off an adventure to find Chedeng's ex-girlfriend."
Directed by Fatrick Tabada and Rae Red
Starring Elizabeth Oropesa and Gloria Diaz
From the producers of That Thing Called Tadhana
PAKI (Please • Care)
Written and directed by Giancarlo Abrahan
Starring Dexter Doria, Eula Valdes, Shamaine Buencamino, Ricky Davao, Ina Feleo, Paolo Paraiso, Cielo Aquino, Miguel Valdes and Noel Trinidad
HISTORIOGRAPHIKA ERRATA
"We are all made to believe what the history books had told us. But what if there’s a different side to the history that is more revealing, liberating, and so downright crazy?
A mosaic of historical facts, fictions and in-betweens – human acts born out of a primeval instinct to survive under adverse conditions. Historiographika Errata paints an absurd yet brutally honest visage of a race plagued by misfortunes."
Directed by Richard Somes
Story and screenplay by Jim Flores
Starring Joem Bascon, Nathalie Hart, Max Eigenmann, Alex Medina, Rafa Siguion-Reyna and Jess Mendoza
CHANGING PARTNERS
“It's a falling-in-and-out-of-love story, in four couple pairings.”
Starring Agot Isidro, Jojit Lorenzo, Sandino Martin and Anna Luna
Directed by Dan Villegas
Based on a musical play of the same title by Vincent DeJesus
THROWBACK TODAY
"Primo is a gifted production designer who is unprepared for the harsh realities of the real world. While trying to make ends meet at the peak of his misfortunes, he experiences a technical glitch with his old desktop computer. When he gets the chance to chat with his college self, he is faced with the option to rewrite his life." - spot.ph
Starring Carlo Aquino, Empress Schuck, Annicka Dolonius, Benj Manaloand Kat Galang
Directed by Joseph Teoxon
NAY
"Martin is a rich, sheltered youth who gets transformed into an aswang by his yaya, Nay Luisa. She teaches him how to hunt the poor and the weak for food, in Manila, a city that consistently dehumanizes and neglects the marginalized."
Written and directed by Kip Oebanda
Starring Enchong Dee, Jameson Blake and Sylvia Sanchez
Directed by Joachim Trier
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COMPETITION FILMS
Cinema One Originals 2017 will feature the following competition films: Haunted: A Last Visit to the Red House, Bundok Banahaw, Sacred and Profane, Si Chedeng at si Apple, Paki (Please • Care), Nervous Translation, Historiographika Errata, Changing Partners, Throwback Today & Nay
HAUNTED: A Last Visit to the Red House
"A documentary film about the Bahay na Pula in Bulacan and the stories of comfort women during the Japanese colonization."Directed by Phyllis Grande
BUNDOK BANAHAW, SACRED AND PROFANE
"A documentary about Mt. Banahaw, its people, their culture and practices."
Directed by Dempster Samarista
"A film about two friends who are both in their 60s. In the wake of her husband's death, Chedeng, 66, decides to come out of the closet. Her best friend Apple, 63, beheads her live-in partner in a fit of rage. Bound by friendship, the two elderly women, together with the severed head placed inside a Louis Vuitton bag, set off an adventure to find Chedeng's ex-girlfriend."
Directed by Fatrick Tabada and Rae Red
Starring Elizabeth Oropesa and Gloria Diaz
From the producers of That Thing Called Tadhana
"Alejandra, an 80-year-old woman, decides that she'd rather be an old maid. In her twilight years, she tries to face her children who forbid her to separate from her husband." - spot.ph
Written and directed by Giancarlo Abrahan
Starring Dexter Doria, Eula Valdes, Shamaine Buencamino, Ricky Davao, Ina Feleo, Paolo Paraiso, Cielo Aquino, Miguel Valdes and Noel Trinidad
NERVOUS TRANSLATION
"Eight-year old Yael, shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. Everything changes when she finds out a pen that can translate the thoughts and feelings of nervous people."
A film by Shireen Seno
Starring Jana Agoncillo
With a special participation of Sid Lucero
"We are all made to believe what the history books had told us. But what if there’s a different side to the history that is more revealing, liberating, and so downright crazy?
A mosaic of historical facts, fictions and in-betweens – human acts born out of a primeval instinct to survive under adverse conditions. Historiographika Errata paints an absurd yet brutally honest visage of a race plagued by misfortunes."
Directed by Richard Somes
Story and screenplay by Jim Flores
Starring Joem Bascon, Nathalie Hart, Max Eigenmann, Alex Medina, Rafa Siguion-Reyna and Jess Mendoza
“It's a falling-in-and-out-of-love story, in four couple pairings.”
Starring Agot Isidro, Jojit Lorenzo, Sandino Martin and Anna Luna
Directed by Dan Villegas
Based on a musical play of the same title by Vincent DeJesus
"Primo is a gifted production designer who is unprepared for the harsh realities of the real world. While trying to make ends meet at the peak of his misfortunes, he experiences a technical glitch with his old desktop computer. When he gets the chance to chat with his college self, he is faced with the option to rewrite his life." - spot.ph
Starring Carlo Aquino, Empress Schuck, Annicka Dolonius, Benj Manaloand Kat Galang
Directed by Joseph Teoxon
"Martin is a rich, sheltered youth who gets transformed into an aswang by his yaya, Nay Luisa. She teaches him how to hunt the poor and the weak for food, in Manila, a city that consistently dehumanizes and neglects the marginalized."
Written and directed by Kip Oebanda
Starring Enchong Dee, Jameson Blake and Sylvia Sanchez
OPENING FILM
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Written and directed by Martin McDonagh
WORLD CINEMA
BEATS PER MINUTE
"Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act Up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant."
Directed by Robin Campillo
Directed by Robin Campillo
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
"A sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman."
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
GOOD TIME
"After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on an odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night, Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance."
Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie
A FANTASTIC WOMAN
"The story of Marina, a waitress and singer, and Orlando, an older man, who are in love and planning for the future. After Orlando suddenly falls ill and dies, Marina is forced to confront his family and society, and to fight again to show them who she is: complex, strong, forthright, fantastic."
Directed by Sebastián Lelio
THELMA
"A Norwegian student, Thelma, moves to Oslo where she falls in love. She soon discovers that she has inexplicable powers."Directed by Joachim Trier
LET THE SUNSHINE IN
"Isabelle, a divorcee with a child, searches for love. A true love at last."
Directed by Claire Denis
SWEET COUNTRY
"Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory, Australia."
Directed by Warwick Thronton
Directed by Amit V. Masurkar
BEFORE WE VANISH
"Three aliens travel to Earth on a mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being, leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake."
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
NEWTON
"Rajkummar Rao plays Newton, who is trying to conduct a free and fair election against all odds. Watch the official trailer, that follows Newton deep into the jungles of Indian democracy."Directed by Amit V. Masurkar
ZAMA
"The great Lucrecia Martel ventures into the realm of historical fiction and makes the genre entirely her own in this adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic of Argentinean literature."
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
"The great Lucrecia Martel ventures into the realm of historical fiction and makes the genre entirely her own in this adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic of Argentinean literature."
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
"Three aliens travel to Earth on a mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being, leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake."
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
"Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity."
Directed by François Ozon
"Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream."
Directed by Ildikó Enyedi
THE THIRD MURDER
"Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low - his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim’s family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all…"
Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
"Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low - his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim’s family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer after all…"
Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (4K Restoration)
"After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen."Directed by Steven Spielberg
RESTORED CLASSICS
BEST OF C1 ORIGINALS
#WalangTakot SHORTS
CLOSING FILM
"The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs."
Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
SCREENING SCHEDULE
