#Cinemalaya2025 open endings (nigel santos; keavy eunice vicente)
★★★★★ // already my favourite this year from the script to the directing to the equally amazing cast ensemble. it’s such a refreshing film that mixes the fun, comedy, drama, romance, and everything so well. the weaving of the stories of each friend or each pair and how these ultimately tie up the story of the four of them done so well. and the friendship! no matter how messed up it all gets, you understand it’s because we are all humans who make mistakes, who get scared, and timing is not always on our side, but that’s just what it is to be human. mabuhay ang mga tomboy 😭✊🏼
janella, leanne, klea, jasmine — such a great ensemble. i want more of them please. sana may part 2? or may full-length series?
and i am a charlie and mihan truther. grabe po ang chemistry?!?!?!
A VOICE FOR THE UNHEARD-- REST IN PEACE, DIREK MIKE DE LEON
Today, August 28, 2025 the FDCP joins the entire film industry in mourning the passing of visionary filmmmaker Mike De Leon.
He was the genius behind generation-defining cinematic classics Itim (1976), Kisapmata (1981), Batch '81 (1982), Sister Stella L (1984), and Citizen Jake (2018).
"[His] life was dedicated to film. His consistent imagination to explore the language of cinema shaped what we understand of Philippine filmmaking today..." - FDCP Chairman Jose Javier Reyes on De Leon's passing.
Mike De Leon shone a light on the beauty and pain of the downtrodden and repressed, bringing their stories to the cultural forefront.
May he rest in peace.
Mike De Leon
1947 - 2025
“To ask a director like myself from the Philippines what the future of cinema is, I find, an absurd question. To ask what the future of cinema is in the Philippines, is like asking what the future of the Philippines is.” — Mike de Leon at Cannes in 1982
Rest in power.
📓 gimik barkada’s bond through the episodes! sa hirap at ginhawa basta’t nandyan ang barkada, gagaan ang problema <3
— in my life by the beatles ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥
Lino Brocka’s MAYNILA SA MGA KUKO NG LIWANAG marked a turning point in Philippine cinema. Released in 1975, we remember the film for its haunting portrait of a city that consumes its people and their dreams.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of its release.
Ex Ex Lovers is a Gimik reunion! Ano ang naging feeling nina Marvin at Jolina na makasama ulit ang kanilang castmates sa movie na ito, at paano nga ba nangyari ang reunion?
#ExExLovers, in cinemas this February 12!
happy birthday, nikki valdez! bringing back her iconic portrayal of tudis, my favorite eldest daughter in philippine cinema
🎞️ ang tanging ina (2006) dir. wenn deramas
happy 51st birthday to the pambansang 2nd lead, diether ocampo! 🫶
(ft the one movie where he gets the girl!)
– soltera (1999), dahil mahal na mahal kita (1998), gimik: the reunion (1999)
⊹₊ ⋆ 90s babies, it’s time to reminisce! cluadine barretto, jolina magdangal, and judy ann santos’ domination of the 1990s
a thread on an unmatched era