FDCP Cinematheque Iloilo Teases Four Big Upcoming Movies

The FDCP Cinematheque has recently released a list of upcoming movies that many of us are surely looking forward to see.


Ang Huling Cha-Cha ni Anita
Directed by Sigfrid Andrea Bernardo
Best Picture CineFilipino Film Festival 2013
Ang Huling Cha Cha ni Anita is a feature length Filipino film about the magic of first love through the eyes of a child, and how a little cha-cha can make a dream come true. In this fantastical tale, twelve-year-old Anita falls in love with the new woman in town. Amidst whispers speculating the intentions of this mysterious and beautiful new arrival, a girlhood crush blossoms during yearly traditional fertility dance in Obando, Bulacan, Philippines.

Mga Anino ng Kahapon 
A film by Alvin Yapan and Alemberg Ang
85 min, 2013, PG 13
New Wave Special Jury Prize - Feature Film
*(Metro Manila Film Festival 2013)
Nominated Gawad Urian Award
Best Actress , Agot Isidro
Best Direction , Alvin Yapan
The film explores the varying degrees, forms and issues of surveillance (the feeling of being policed) which arethe heart of the relationship and the conflict of a schizophrenia patient and caregiver, especially during the treatment phase. However, while the film deals with a psychological condition, Yapan also uses schizophrenia as a metaphor for the conditions prevailing in current Filipino society. MGA ANINO NG KAHAPON is overtly an advocacy film about schizophrenia, it manages to depict this mental illness in a poignant, oftentimes funny and endearing manner.

Rakenrol
Directed by Quark Henares
113 min, 2011, PG 13
Audience Award, Narrative Feature, Quark Henares
*(VC FilmFest - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2011)
Odie and his best friend Irene are two outsiders who find a second home in the Philippine underground music scene. The two decide to form a band and put together an unlikely crew that consists of the school bully, an ex-punk-turned-barista, and a former-childstar-turned-band-manager. The film follows their misadventures as they face satanic S&M bands, samurai swindlers, narcissistic rockstars, the pretentious Philippine art community and the freakiest music video auteur ever. Co-written by Diego Castillo, the guitarist of one of the Philippines' biggest rock bands SANDWICH, and directed by multi-awarded music video director Quark Henares, Rakenrol is a heartfelt ode to the underground scene both filmmakers spent their formative years in.

Rekorder
Directed by Mikhail Red
90 min, 2013, PG 13
Best Production Design, Ronald Red
*(Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2013)
Excellence in Acting in a Lead Role, Ronnie Quizon
*(Barcelona International Film Festival 2014)
Rekorder is the story of Maven, a tragic drifter who with his old camcorder records movies currently showing in theaters to sell the footage to pirates. The parting image shows Ronnie in the movie theater without his camcorder in hand. For the first time, he isn't asleep while the movie is playing. He is just there, sitting alone and motionless, completely engrossed by the movie he is watching. As it turns out, the movie is not the commercial features he has been recording throughout the years for the enterprising pirates, he records something else... And the footage goes viral.