QCinema 2018
October 21-30, 2018

Billie and Emma

By Samantha Lee

Billie is a 17 year old rocker girl who is forced to move to the province. She meets Emma- queen bee, model student, perfect daughter and suddenly pregnant. Together, they go through the experience of first love as they explore what it means to be a family.

DOG DAYS: Pinoy Hoop Dreams

By Timmy Harn

In chasing after his hoop dreams, half-black half-Filipino wannabe basketball star Michael Jordan Ulili believes he has special god given powers to have what it takes. But his power takes him to a journey where he is faced with the weirdness of his destiny.

Hintayan ng Langit

By Dan Villegas

Lisang has been waiting for two years, but her bad behavior has kept her from moving forward. A new list of eligibles will soon be released and her name is finally being considered, but there's a shortage of rooms in purgatory and she'll have to share a room with a man from her past.

Masla A Papanok

By Gutierrez Mangansakan II

In 1892, a giant bird mysteriously appears in Maguindanao foretelling the fall and rise of colonial empires.

ODA SA WALA

By Dwein Baltazar

Sonya an old maid, is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life.

Panata sa Bundok Gulsuk

By Jordan Dela Cruz

Panata sa Bundok Gulsok is a dark coming-of-age story set in the idyllic city of Naga in the Bicol Region. When the life of his pregnant high school girlfriend is threatened by a mysterious, incurable disease, a naive teenage boy must journey towards the peak of the mythical Mount Gulsuk to search for a cure.

All Grown Up

By Wena Sanchez

After years of nurturing and protecting her younger brother, a filmmaker is forced to question her ability to help the people she loves when her own daughter begins to have trouble of her own. A story about what it means to help the people you love the most.

LUZVIMINDA

By Shallah Montero

The Philippine drug war through the eyes of women.

Pag-ukit sa Paniniwala

By Hiyas Baldemor Bagabaldo

Procession of images including a 500-year-old Dead Christ is juxtaposed to the journey of a third-eneration mastercarver in transforming blocks of wood into a gigantic Jesus crucified on a 12-ft cross. The contrasting harmony of the sculptors, the sculptures, and the devotees reveal a customary yet surreal portrait of Paete, a small artisanal town in the Philippines.