"Beast" in the Warsaw Film Festival

Beast

Country Australia Philippines
Year:2015
Festival: 2015
Director: Sam McKeith, Tom McKeith
Producer: Robert Coe, Will Jaymes, Bianca Balbuena
Cast: Garret Dillahunt, Chad McKinney, Angeli Bayani, Will Jaymes, Wyzel Myo Indonto
Duration: 94 min
Genre: drama, sport

Description:

Jaime is a young boxer living in Manila. He is managed by his own father, Rick, an American expat. Rick has great ambitions for his son, and convinces him to tamper with his gloves in order to win a match. When his defeated opponent dies from injuries sustained in the match, Jaime is guilt-stricken. Meanwhile, the criminals who had a stake in the game are combing the streets for Jaime. The youngster asks himself if he can still be a good man after having done such a bad thing. A gritty and extremely naturalistic tour of the Manilan underworld that is rarely shown on screen.



Screenings:
MULTIKINO 3 > Tuesday > 13.10.2015 > 19:00
MULTIKINO 3 > Friday > 16.10.2015 > 21:30
MULTIKINO 3 > Saturday > 17.10.2015 > 14:00

27th Warsaw Film Festival - AURAEUS SOLITO

KALAYAAN (Wildlife): Behind the scenes

Actors Ananda Everingham, Zanjoe Marudo, Luis Alandy, Angeli Bayani and Kiki Sugino talk about their roles in Adolfo Alix, Jr.'s Kalayaan (Wildlife).

The film tackles the lonely lives of Filipino soldiers in the contested Spratly islands.

Screening details at Kalayaan (Wildlife) in Warsaw Film Festival 2012

GAYUMA (PILGRIM LOVERS)

Country: Philippines
Production year: 2011
Director: Alvin B. Yapan
Producer: Alemberg Ang
Cast: Mercedes Cabral, Kalil Almonte, Robyn John Reyes, Frank Penones
Duration: 86 min

Gayuma is a magical tale of love going beyond the boundaries of social class, religious and superstitious beliefs, and urban-rural prejudices. A failed exorcism of a talking and dancing statue of a Child Jesus leads a poor sacristan, Delfin, to concoct a love potion to make Carla, a rich girl, fall for him. After Carla drinks the potion and assents to all his advances, Delfin cannot believe his luck until he is no longer certain whether Carla really loves him. He descends into a deep sleep of paranoia, from which no medical science can wake him. Carla goes on a pilgrimage to overturn the enchantment of the love potion. A possessed statue of a Child Jesus stands between the two lovers. Probably the only Bikol-language film screened in Poland.