Cover The much-awaited Qcinema is finally here (Photo: Aneta Pawlik/Unsplash)
The much-awaited Qcinema is finally here (Photo: Aneta Pawlik/Unsplash)
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Time to sit back and relax! The beloved QCinema is finally back with a variety of heart-warming and thought-provoking films
As Metro Manila slowly eases its quarantine restrictions, cinema buffs have more reasons to feel excited about the influx of independent movies. Before 2021 ends, the beloved QCinema International Film Festival returns with nine films that people can watch in Gateway Cineplex 10 from November 26 to December 5.
People who are not yet comfortable with the hybrid cinema setup can simply log in to KTX.ph where equally exciting movies will be shown.
“This will be the first film festival to be held after cinemas opened their doors again and we are very happy to be part of the jump start of our much-loved industry," Festival Director Ed Lejano told the press.
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Below are QCinema movies that will be streamed in Gateway Cineplex 10
1. Drive my Car
Drive my Car is a film adapted from a short story in Murakami Haruki's Men Without Women. A director's wife was a playwright, but she died two years ago. When he's invited to direct a play at a festival in Hiroshima, the director finds his chauffeur to be a stoic woman. The two share many rides, and as communication is initiated secrets and confessions are gradually exchanged.
2. Historya ni Ha
Set in 1957, Hernando Alamada, a former socialist cadre, fulfills the last leg of his performing tour on the Mayflower cruise ship. He knows that the Philippines is experiencing a bitter transition yet again; the much-loved and popular president, Ramon Magsaysay, suddenly dies in a plane crash.
He arrives in his poverty-stricken barrio, his country's state and future burdening him heavily, and at the same time, a deep personal turmoil confronts him.
3. Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days.
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4. Great Freedom
In postwar Germany, Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. What starts in revulsion grows to something called love.
5. Lamb
6. The Box
A Mexican teenager sets out to collect his fathers remains, only to be sucked into the underbelly of the manufacturing industry.
7. Memoria
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
8. Happening
A young woman in 1960s France battles physically and emotionally to access illegal abortion in a race against the clock.
9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasies
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
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