Sanglaan looks at seemingly simple relationships and uncomplicated events happening in a very mundane institution. A religious and single-minded businesswoman with a losing proposition, afraid of old age. A timid, vulnerable girl hopelessly in love with a high school crush. A security guard whose wife has a fragile heart. A charming and mysterious seaman just passing through. And a loan shark who won't take "no" for an answer. These are some of the characters that populate the milieu of Sanglaan, a light, funny, poignant and very Pinoy story about hope and redemption.
Screening Schedule:
July 18, Saturday 12:45 p.m. (CCP Little Theatre)
July 19, Sunday 9:00 p.m. (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
July 21, Tuesday 9:00 p.m. (CCP Main Theater)
July 22, Wednesday 6:15 p.m. (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
July 23, Thursday 12:45 p.m. (CCP MKP Hall)
July 24, Friday 3:30 p.m. (CCP Main Theater)
July 25, Saturday 3:30 p.m. (CCP MKP Hall)
Cinemalaya Cinco, tagged as the "big, small film festival", is featuring the following sections, namely, Competition, World Premieres and NetPac films, Lino Brocka Retrospective, Kids' Treats, Gay/Lesbian films, Exhibitions, The City in Focus, Women in Indies, Off Center, Special Screenings, Documentary and Ani: Best of Last Year.
In the Brocka Retrospective, among the films to be screened are Wanted: Perfect Mother, Tubog sa Ginto, Stardoom, Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, Tatlo Dalawa Isa, Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag, Insiang, Bona, Bayan Ko, and Macho Dancer.
Another major event of Cinemalaya Cinco is the Cinemalaya Film Congress on July 21-22 at the CCP Little Theater. With the theme "Linking Digital Highways", the Cinemalaya Film Congress aims to discover the major centers of independent filmmaking in the country, assess the artistic achievement of cinematic works produced in the last five years, to invite indie filmmakers from the different regions to speak about the state of indie filmmaking in their areas, and to establish a network of indie filmmaking centers to consolidate all efforts to create, promote and market indie films both here and abroad.
Cinemalaya opens on July 17 and runs until July 26, 2009. Films will be shown at all CCP venues, namely the Main Theater, the Little Theater, Tanghalang Huseng Batute and the MKP Hall.
Exhibition schedules are subject to change.
For ticket information, please call the CCP Marketing Department at 551-7930 or 832-1125 local 1800 to 1808 and the CCP Box Office at 832-3704 or 832-1125 local 1409.
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Catch Cinemalaya at the University of the Philippines Diliman from July 28 to August 4. Click here for the screening schedule.
