MANILA: Ten films that showcase Southeast Asian folklore can be viewed for free from Aug. 17 to 18 through the Tingin Southeast Asian Film Festival, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) said Thursday.
The public can watch the films from across the ASEAN Region at the Red Carpet, Shangri-La Plaza Mall in Mandaluyong City.
“NCCA’s Culture and Diplomacy Program remains committed to familiarizing Filipino moviegoers with the multifaceted and rich cultures and cinemas of Southeast Asia. Tingin is part of our mission to develop the cultural palate of film students and young moviegoers by exposing them to excellent films from the region,” Mariel Nini, head of NCCA Sentro Rizal International Cultural Affairs Office, said in a statement.
Nini said the film fest features the region’s myths and legends which have striking similarities in different member-states.
The five films that will be screened on Aug. 17 are Golden Dragon directed by Boren Chhith (Cambodia); Once Upon a Time, There Was a Mom
by Lin Htet Aung (Myanmar); Worship by Uruphong Raksasad (Thailand); Snow in Midsummer by Chong Keat Aun (Malaysia); and The Long Walk by Mattie Do (Laos).
On Aug. 18, moviegoers can watch Part of Me by Hazrul Aizan (Brunei); Of Other Tomorrows Never Known by Natasha Tontey (Indonesia); Memoryland by Kim Quy Bui (Viet Nam); Dreaming and Dying directed by Nelson Yeo (Singapore); and In My Mother’s Skin directed by Kenneth Dagatan (Philippines).
‘Filmmakers have time and again drawn from the rich wellspring of folklore, to revisit old paradigms, to use it as a foil to new but harmful lifeways, or to serve as anchor for a society battered by scientism,’ Tingin festival director Maya Quirino said.
Source : Philippines News agency
