It is that time of the year again when Spanish film fans troop to Greenbelt 3 Cinema 1 to participate in PELÍCULA Manila Spanish Film Festival. The highly anticipated event every October is PELÍCULA’s 17th edition. For 2018, PELÍCULA Manila Spanish Film Festival features 21 full-length award-winning Spanish and Latin American films from various cinematic genres, drama, action, comedy, thriller, adventure, romance, animation, and fantasy.
Created in 2002, organized by Instituto Cervantes Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain to the Philippines, PELÍCULA Manila Spanish Film Festival “has grown through the years to become the most important exhibition of Spanish Cinema in the Southeast Asian region”. It showcases the best full-length and short films with the brightest Spanish-speaking actors and the most compelling stories that usually put the audience at the edge of their seats.
Non-Spanish speakers have no need to worry because all films have English subtitles.
The 2018 PELÍCULA Manila Spanish Film Festival starts on October 4, 2018 and runs until October 14, 2018 in Greenbelt 3 Cinema1.
For a related entry, please read Bergman in Spain.
To read more about the full-length films featured in the film festival, please check The Films, Part I and The Films, Part II.
Schedule of Film Showing of the 2018 PELÍCULA Manila Spanish Film Festival at Greenbelt 3 Cinemas from October 4 to 14, 2018.
Here are all the full-length films shown at the 2018 PELÍCULA at Greenbelt 3 Cinemas:
Summary and other details of Atrapa la Bandera (Enrique Gato, 2015), Campeones (Javier Fesser, 2018), Carmen y Lola (Arantxa Echevarría, 2018), Casi 40 (David Trueba, 2018), and Dancing Beethoven (Arantxa Aguirre, 2016).
Summary and other details of El Autor (Manuel Martín Cuenca, 2017), El Último Traje (Pablo Solarz, 2018), Hacerse Mayor y Otros Problemas (Clara Martínez-Lázaro, 2018), Handia (Aitor Arregi & Jon Garaño, 2017), La Cordillera (Santiago Mitre, 2017), and La Higuera de los Bastardos (Ana Murugarren, 2017).
Summary and other details of La Llamada (Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi, 2017), La Novia (Paula Ortiz, 2015), Las Distancias (Elena Trapé, 2018), Los Amores Cobardes (Carmen Blanco, 2018), and Memorias de un Hombre en Pijama (Carlo FerFer, 2018).
Summary and other details of Mi Querida Confradía (Marta Días de Lope Díaz, 2018), Oro (Agustín Díaz Yanes, 2017), Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966), Tacones Lejanos (Pedro Almodóvar, 1991), and Últimos Días en La Habana (Fernando Pérez, 2016).
I have not watched any of these films except the first 40 minutes of La Cordillera. I did not find La Cordillera interesting although the lovely Ricardo Darín is in it. It is only the second of all of his films I have watched that I did not like.
PELÍCULA Manila Spanish Film Festival patrons can take part in daily contests and have a hand in voting for the Audience Choice film. All you need to do is rate the movie you have watched and do so for four other films. 🙂 You will get a chance to win a trip to Spain!!!
PELÍCULA films are shown at 430pm, 7pm and 930pm on weekdays, and at 2pm, 430pm, 7pm, and 930pm on weekends. Tickets are at *P100 (US $ 1.84) per movie.
All images are scanned copies from the programme provided by Instituto Cervantes Manila.
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*US $1 = P54.27