Cinemanila 2010

PARK CHAN-WOON’S THIRST SCREENS TODAY AT CINEMANILA

Screening Schedule

December 1 - Wednesday
December 2 - Thursday
December 3 - Friday
December 4 - Saturday
December 5 - Sunday
December 6-8 Cinemanila Extension

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DECEMBER 4 - Saturday

Cinema A (35 mm)

10:05 PM Thirst | Park Chan Wook (South Korea, 2009)

Synopsis
Sang-hyun is a priest who volunteers his time conducting his ministry to patients in a small town hospital. With the hope of saving even one life, he volunteers to participate in a risky experiment in Africa and ends up contracting the deadly Eve virus. With the transfusion of a mysterious blood, Sang-hyun then comes back to life as a vampire.

Living with her sick husband and his over-protective mother, Tae-ju leads a dreary, unhappy life. She is drawn to Sang-hyun and his strange new physicality, and he is unable to resist his desire, and so they begin an affair. But when Tae-ju discovers the truth about his new life, she retreats in fear, only at first. When Sang-hyun asks her to run away with him, she turns him down, suggesting that they kill her impotent husband instead.

Festival Screenings / Awards
62nd Cannes Film Festival 2009 (Jury Prize), 14th Pusan International Film Festival 2009 (Korean Cinema Today: Panorama), 42nd Sitges Film Festival 2009 (Best Actress for Kim Ok-Bin), 13th Fantasia Film Festival 2009 (Best Asian Film: Silver)

The 12th Cinemanila International Film Festival will be held from December 1 to 5, 2010 in Robinsons Movieworld Galleria, Quezon City. Around 50 international and local films will be screened in a span of 5 days – from the current toasts of the local indie scene to the award-winners and favorites at prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Sundance, and Pusan. The festival will also feature workshops, seminars and master classes. For more info, or jpegs for a release, please contact cinemanila.press@gmail.com and cinemanila@gmail.com or go to www.cinemanila.org.ph.

The 2010 Cinemanila is presented by the Film Development Council of the Philippines and the Cinemanila International Film Festival Foundation, together with Robinsons Movieworld Galleria, in cooperation with Cinema One, Manila Bulletin, Business World, Click the City, Pep.ph, Spot.ph, Web Philippines, TBWA\Mangada Santiago Puno, Outpost Visual Frontier, Solid Video Corporation and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office.

CINEMANILA 2010 is presented by

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