LOOK: 'Open Endings' has received an R-16 rating from the MTRCB.
Directed by Nigel Santos, it stars Janella Salvador, Klea Pineda, Leanne Mamonong, & Jasmine Curtis-Smith with Jackie Lou Blanco, Yesh Anne Burce, Migs Almendras, Rachel Coates, & Jhoanna San Juan. #OpenEndings
BODY WORKS
written and directed by Maki Makilan
produced by Vic Noay, Patti Lapus, Dodo Dayao
a project with VFilms and Monsoon Projects
coming to QCinema 2026
Meet the five recipients of the 2026 #QCShorts Production Grant.
Selected from a record-breaking 395 submissions, each project receives a ₱700,000 production grant. The films will premiere at the 14th QCinema International Film Festival this November 13–22, 2026.
This brilliant piece was by RJ Ledesma. He was a journalist and was in the area of Toboso, Negros Occidental doing community work to help the people there. Unfortunately, he is one of the innocent people that was killed by the AFP.
The CPP confirmed that USC Councilor Alyssa Alano and community journalist RJ Ledesma were civilians, following a wide disinformation campaign by the Armed Forces of the Philippines branding both as slain members of the New People’s Army.
READ: https://t.co/sdoYpkGyV7
you killed alyssa alano, RJ ledesma, roel sabillo, 9 in the 2018 sagay massacre, 14 in canlaon 2019, a 15- & 11-y.o. in the fausto family in 2023, crispin tingal the month before, all on negros, and you label them all NPA. liars. you killed them all. you’re all pigs and butchers.
for never forsaking.
i never knew grief transcends multiple degrees of knowing. i grieve you, a totga of some sort. there’s a lot i haven’t told you—gratitude first, among many.
our land is desperate, and through it all, you nursed my spirit without you knowing.
news of the bloodbath in negros the same day we get confirmation of billions' worth of bank transactions linked to sara duterte. the conditions of supposed normalcy through which the political class steals from us and wealth is hoarded upward are maintained by sheer violence.
'MAY PERMIT BA ANG PAGNANAKAW? WALA! '
A verbal altercation broke out between Tacloban City police and food delivery riders who were blocked from joining a larger rally at the city's freedom park.
The rally, organized by the multisectoral group Leyte Aksyon Laban sa Korapsyon, aimed to highlight issues such as corruption in flood control projects and unresolved problems in Yolanda rehabilitation. | via Miriam Desacada/The Philippine STAR
if other countries can commit such acts as part of protest, bakit hindi pwede sa pinas?
protests are never comfortable, even in the most peaceful ones. you cannot compel people keep their anger to themselves, they have all the rights to showcase how they feel
naghahanap buhay ang tao nadale pa katawa. ganto lang ba tingin niyo sa creatives? kung hindi milyones yung kita di na relevant sa usapang work ethics? weird.
#Arcane had the worst ending I've seen in a while. It's a shame.
What could've been a gut-wrenching commentary on classism, oppression, social injustice, etc, became an all-out sci-fi war that solved nothing meaningfully. The heart was lost after s1. Vi & Jinx deserved better.
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