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- Since March 2020, according to the Philippine Motion Pictures Producers Association (PMPPA), the film industry has lost ₱16 billion. Meanwhile, the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), which usually garners ₱1 billion every year, premiered its slate of films last December 2020 online and barely earned ₱25 million.
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The following is a list of highest grossing Philippine films. Color key – is an entry film for Metro Manila Film Festival.
Jan 10, 2020 · Updated Jan 10, 2020 08:03 PM PHT. In 2016, streaming giant Netflix expanded their subscriber base worldwide, including the Philippines in their 190-territory expansion. In just three short years, users have ballooned with nearly 300,000 in 2020, according to the statistics website Statista.
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Oct 21, 2022 · Because of literacy, distribution, and accessibility issues, most Filipinos don't get to view Filipino-made films that much apart from limited streaming platforms (which reminds me, Oro, Plata, Mata is on Netflix now, too, by the way). They don't exactly pop up on streaming services too often.
- Family Matters
- A Silent Night
- A Tale of Filipino Violence
- 11,103
- 12 Weeks
- When The Waves Are Gone
- Blue Room
- The Baseball Player
- Deleter
- Leonor Will Never Die
Director: Nuel Naval | Starring: Noel Trinidad, Liza Lorena, Nonie Buencamino | Genre: Family, Drama Family Mattersis a heartfelt drama that explores the complex intergenerational relationships of a Filipino family. At the center of this family are patriarch Francisco (Noel Trinidad) and matriarch Eleanor (Liza Lorena). When one of their daughters ...
Director: Shugo Praico | Starring: Ian Veneracion, Heaven Peralejo | Genre: Thriller If you’re looking for a suspense-filled thriller with more mature themes, consider A Silent Night (Nanahimik ang Gabi). This movie follows Me-ann (played by Heaven Peralejo), who’s a sugar baby for a corrupt police officer she calls Chiefly (Ian Veneracion). When t...
Director: Lav Diaz | Starring: John Lloyd Cruz, Bart Guingona, Hazel Orencio | Genre: Art House, Family, Drama, Political, Historical Lav Diaz is perhaps the Philippine’s most renowned art house filmmaker today, known for making exceptionally long movies with sociopolitical themes. In 2022 Diaz came out with A Tale of Filipino Violence(Isang Salays...
Director: Jeannette Ifurung | Genre: Documentary Given the year’s political landscape, another martial law related film has made it onto our list of 2022’s top Filipino movies—the documentary 11,103. The film derives its name from the number of victims who have received official compensationfor human rights violations during the Marcos period, and ...
Director: Anna Isabelle Matutina | Starring: Max Eigenmann, Bing Pimentel, Vance Larena | Genre: Drama 12 Weeks offers a complex and highly personal exploration of a woman’s struggles in patriarchal Filipino society. The film centers on Alice, a humanitarian worker in her 40s who’s dealing with the lasting trauma of the ISIS insurgency in Mindanao....
Director: Lav Diaz | Starring: John Lloyd Cruz, Ronnie Lazaro, Shamaine Buencamino | Genre: Art House, Drama Lav Diaz actually released two films in 2022, and both have made it onto this list. Clocking in at a relatively short (for Diaz movies, that is) 3 hours and 7 minutes, When the Waves are Gone (Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon)features a police offic...
Director: Ma-an L. Asuncion-Dagñalan | Starring: juan karlos, Elijah Canlas, Keoni Jin, Nourijune, Harvey Bautista | Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music Blue Room is another notable 2022 Filipino independent film. The movie centers on a group of privileged teens who play in an indie rock band called Rebel Rebel. After playing at a prestigious music ...
Director: Carlo Obispo | Starring: Tommy Alejandrino, JM San Jose, Tess Antonio, Don Melvin Boongaling | Genre: Sports, War, Drama Cinemalaya 2022’s biggest winner was actuallyThe Baseball Player, which earned awards for Best Film, Actor, Screenplay, and Editing. With its story about a 17 year-old orphaned child soldier who aspires to be a baseball...
Director: Mikhail Red | Starring: Nadine Lustre, Louise Delos Reyes, McCoy De Leon | Genre: Horror When objectionable content gets posted to the world’s top social media networks, oftentimes an outsourced content moderator in the Philippines eventually reviews and removes it. Content moderators with repeated exposure to such content—suicides, porno...
Director: Martika Ramirez Escobar | Starring: Sheila Francisco, Bong Cabrera, Rocky Salumbides | Genre: Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Action Our choice for the #1 Filipino movie of 2022 is Leonor Will Never Die (Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago). This film is the best of many worlds: artistically innovative, entertaining, yet also full of thought-provoking ...
Oct 26, 2021 · There’s still a place for Filipino films that can be recognized by award-giving bodies internationally. Though validation from the film festivals don’t necessarily dictate a film’s greatness, this marks a statement that Philippine cinema is thriving and surviving amidst these hard times.
Jan 24, 2024 · MANILA, Philippines – After a box-office-record-setting 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), will we now now see Philippine cinemas often filled with movie-goers watching local movies...
Jan 17, 2021 · Oggs Cruz. INFO. From romcoms to documentaries – here are the best films of 2020. Nearly a month into 2021, and it still feels like 2020. The unpredictability that defined what many consider the...
