Quezon Metropolis Mayor Pleasure Belmonte (middle) poses for a photograph with the organizers, filmmakers, and actors as a part of the 2024 QCinema Worldwide Movie Competition. Picture: Hannah Mallorca/INQUIRER.web
Because the QCinema Worldwide Movie Competition reaches its twelfth yr, it stays dedicated to being an avenue for fearless storytelling by way of full-length and quick movies, whereas standing as a pillar for filmmakers, producers and actors.
QCinema 2024 follows the theme “The Gaze,” which can run from Nov. 8 to 17 on the Gateway Cineplex 18, Ayala Malls Cinema in Trinoma, Pink Carpet in Shangri-La Plaza, and Powerplant Mall. This yr’s lineup features a complete of movies together with 55 full-length and 22 quick movies unfold throughout 11 sections.
“Over the previous years, QCinema was a steadfast anchor for our fledgling younger impartial filmmakers, producers, and different movie skills. As a result of it has been institutionalized as a cultural pillar for Quezon Metropolis, QCinema will proceed to help and encourage our budding and homegrown artists,” Quezon Metropolis Mayor Pleasure Belmonte stated on the competition’s press convention.
Whereas Belmonte is happy with how the competition has grown by way of the years, she hoped it should keep true to its purpose of “elevating appreciation” amongst residents, particularly the youth.
“QCinema has gone a great distance, however I consider that we will do extra and be extra. We’ve the potential to serve a higher function to assist us break the glass ceiling of worldwide cinema,” she stated.
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The poster for this yr’s QCinema Worldwide Movie Competition. Picture: Courtesy of QCinema
The competition opens with the Administrators’ Manufacturing unit Philippines that includes eight native and worldwide filmmakers together with:
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- “Walay Balay” by Eve Baswel (Philippines) and Gogularaajan Rajendran (Malaysia)
- “Nightbirds” by Maria Estela Paiso (Philippines) and Ashok Vish (India)
- “Silig” by Arvin Belarmino (Philippines) and Lomorpich Rithy (Cambodia)
- “Chilly Reduce” by Don Eblahan (Philippines) and Tan Siyou (Singapore)
Staying true to its purpose of celebrating Asian filmmakers, this yr’s QCinema can have two foremost competitors sections, Asian Subsequent Wave and QCShorts Worldwide.
The Asian Subsequent Wave finalists embrace:
- “Don’t Cry Butterfly” by Duong Dieu Linh (Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore)
- “Pierce” by Nelicia Low (Taiwan, Poland, Singapore)
- “Mistress Dispeller” by Elizabeth Lo (China and United States)
- “Happyend” by Neo Sora (Singapore, United Kingdom, United States)
- “Story of the Land” by Loeloe Hendra (Indonesia, Philippines, Qatar, Taiwan)
- “Viet and Nam” by Truong Minh Quy (Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, United States)
- “Moneyslapper” by Bor Ocampo (Philippines)
In the meantime, listed below are the QCShorts Worldwide entries that includes quick movies by six Filipino quick movie grantees and different Asian filmmakers:
- “Alaga” by Nicole Rosacay
- “Kinakausap ni Celso ang Diyos” by Gilb Baldoza
- “Chorus” by Joseph Dominic Cruz
- “RAMPAGE! (o ang parada)” by Kukay Bautista Zinampan
- “Supermassive Heavenly Physique” by Sam Villa-Actual
- “Water Sports activities” by Whammy Alcazaren
- “Are We Nonetheless Associates?” by Al Ridwan (Indonesia)
- “Right here We Are” by Chanasorn Chaikitiporn (Thailand)
- “Within the Identify of Love I Will Punish You” by Exsell Rabbani (Indonesia)
- “Peaceland” by Ekin Kee Charles (Malaysia)
- “Saigon Kiss” by Hồng Anh Nguyễn (Vietnam, Australia, Germany)
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Different classes embrace the RainbowQC and New Horizons, which can be acknowledged as worldwide competitors sections beneath the Particular Critics Prize awards.
The nominees beneath RainbowQC, which celebrates love and id among the many LGBTQIA+ group, embrace the next:
- “Child” by Marcelo Caetano
- “The Balconettes” by Noémie Merlan
- “My Sunshine” by Hiroshi Okuyama
- “Pooja, Sir” by Deepak Rauniyar
- “Sebastian” by Mikko Mäkelä
Listed here are the entries for the New Horizons part:
- “Blue Solar Palace” by Constance Tsang
- “Cu Li By no means Cries” by Phạm Ngọc Lân
- “Santosh by Sandhya Suri
- “The Main Tones” by Ingrid Pokropek
- “Poisonous” by Saulė Bliuvaitė
Additionally making a mark on the competition is the Display Worldwide exhibition which options 10 films from award-winning filmmakers:
- “Afternoons of Solitude” by Albert Serra
- “When Fall Is Coming” by François Ozon
- “All We Think about as Mild” by Payal Kapadia
- “Grand Tour” by Miguel Gomes
- “Simon of the Mountain” by Federico Luis
- “Anora” by Sean Bake
- “Phantosmia” by Lav Diaz
- “The Finish” by Joshua Oppenheimer
- “The Rely of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre de la Patellièr and Matthieu Delaporte
- “The Room Subsequent Door” by Pedro Almodóvar
Additionally a part of the exhibition are the QCLokal (specializing in Filipino skills); Rediscovery (highlighting basic movies); Modern Italian Cinema; and QCinema Selects. Different sections returning to the competition are the Shorts Expo, Earlier than Midnight, and Particular Screenings.
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Beneath the Particular Screenings class is a lineup of movies aiming to make clear controversial subjects, in hopes of “including depth and selection” to the annual competition:
- “An Errand” by Dominic Baekart
- “If My Lover Have been a Flower” by Kaung Zan
- “A Thousand Forests” by Hanz Florentino
- “Misplaced Sabungeros” by Bryan Brazil
“Cloud,” a psychological thriller by Kiyoshi Kurosawa will shut the competition. The movie tells the story of a reseller named Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), who finds himself on the brunt of mysterious occasions that put his life in danger.
