Ticket prices, new venue, and everything you need to know about Cinemalaya 2023
BATCH 2023 Meet the directors and some of the cast members competing in this year's Cinemalaya Film Festival (Image from Cinemalaya)
After overcoming the challenges of the past couple of years, Cinemalaya is officially back with its usual lineup of 10 competing films for the full-length category and another 10 for the shorts categories. This year's theme is "IlumiNasyon," which means "to enlighten."
Here’s all the important information to take note of for the 19th edition of Cinemalaya Film Festival.
- Date and venue
With the CCP Main Building undergoing rehabilitation, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. brings the cinematic experience to the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), located inside the CCP Complex, on August 4 to 13, 2023.
For its 10-day run, the Cinemalaya films will be screened at three meeting rooms, Cinema Rizal (Meeting Room 1), Cinema Bonifacio (Meeting Room 2 and 3), and Cinema Felipe (Meeting Room 4). Fringe events and talkbacks will be held at Cinema Palma (Meeting Room 5). The exhibitions and filmmakers’ profiles will be on display at the Executive Lounge.
- Ticket prices
Regular:P300
Student: P200
Senior citizen/PWD/government employee: P240
FIC (Films in Competition) pass: P2500 [set of 12 films: 10 full length and two sets of shorts
Festival pass (all access): P3500
Tickets will be available at PICC.
- The mainstays
Film enthusiasts and festival fans will continue to enjoy the festival’s mainstays: Retrospective, lookback to winning films of past Cinemalaya editions; Best of the Festivals, which showcases the best films from local festivals; Visions of Asia, featuring award-winning Asian and Netpac films; Premieres, featuring never-before-screen films; and Dokyu, which screens award-winning documentaries.
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