Cinemanila 2012: Young Cinema Shorts in Competition

This year, Cinemanila has four short film entries.

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Aurora, my aurora by Janus Victoria

In a city where encounters are anonymous, impersonal, and unsatisfying, sometimes the most human connections are born out of the most random collisions. Rhythms can create discord and cacophony or blend into sad sweet harmony, as a lonely taxi driver and a young showbiz aspirant discover. A fare seeking love, an audition gone awry: pulsing through the veins and arteries of the city is the relentless rhythm of time passing with equal regard for those who are swept along and those who are swept away by the beat.

Cast: CLAUDINE DAGANDAN, ROLANDO INOCENCIO, EDWIN SERRANO, HAKIM MANDIA, CHERISH BRILLON, VINCE GROYON

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Ang Prinsesa, ang Prinsipe at si Marlborita (The Princess, the Prince and Marlborita) by Carl Papa

Lonely and stuck inside a tall tower all her life, a princess with long magical hair was given a mysterious gift by strange fairy as she waits for the prince whom she long waited for.

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Kabilang Dulo (The Other End) by Bienvenido Ferrer III

Leo wants to live his life the way he wants it to be, different from what his mother wants for him. The pros and cons of aiming for freedom, as Leo escapes his mother’s “love”.

Cast: NICCO MANALO, BEVERLY SALVIEJO, DIONNE MONSANTO, JUNJUN QUINTANA, VIC ROMANO, OLIVE NIETO, BABY JOSHUA

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Unawa (Sympathy) by Pamela Llanes Reyes

A young girl who works in a fishing village in the province tries to reconnect with her deranged mother in the city however her estranged father convinces her that she has gravely mistaken her mother’s identity.

Cast: MARISSE APOSTOL, KU AQUINO, ANGELI BAYANI, CHERYL HAPALLA, TONY DELA ROSA, LIA TORRALBA

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For Young Cinema Shorts in Competition, please click here.