Established in 1982, interfilm Berlin organizes the Berlin International
Short Film Festival as well as the interfilm Short Film Distribution.

Festival Director Heinz Hermanns will be present to answer questions about the festival and short film distribution.

Presented in cooperation with Cinemanila FilmFest, Goethe Institut Manila, and interfilm Berlin.

RSVP to cinemanila.entries@gmail.com.

Images from the 2011 Cinemanila

MAIN COMPETITION

BEST ACTRESS – YOON JUNG-HEE for her role in POETRY by Lee Chang-Dong (South Korea)

BEST ACTOR – GEORGE PISTEREANU for his role in IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE by Florin Serban (Romania)

BEST DIRECTOR – NURI BILGE CEYLAN for ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Turkey)

GRAND JURY PRIZE – CENTURY OF BIRTHING (SIGLO NG PAGLULUWAL) by Lav Diaz (Philippines)

LINO BROCKA GRAND PRIZE – GANGOR by Italo Spinelli (Italy)

DIGITAL LOKAL

BEST DIRECTOR – MES DE GUZMAN for SA KANTO NG ULAP AT LUPA

GRAND JURY PRIZE – SAKAY SA HANGIN by Regiben Romana

LINO GRAND PRIZE – SA KANTO NG ULAP AT LUPA by Mes de Guzman

SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMPETITION

BEST SOUTHEAST ASIAN FILM – GOLDEN SLUMBERS by Davy Chou (Cambodia)

SPECIAL MENTION – BOUNDARY by Benito Bautista (Philippines) and MIRROR NEVER LIES by Kamila Andini (Indonesia)

YOUNG CINEMA

BEST SHORT FILM – 123 by Carlo Obispo

ISHMAEL BERNAL AWARD FOR MOST OUTSTANDING YOUNG FILIPINO FILMMAKER – CARLO OBISPO for 123

SPECIAL MENTION – SARANGHAE MY TUTOR by Victor Villanueva

Founding Director Tikoy Aguiluz and Mayor Lani Cayetano of Taguig toast to the Opening of the 2011 Cinemanila International Film Festival

November 14, 4:30 pm, Fully Booked High Street U-View: Oberhausen Best of International Competition – Screening of shorts from Oberhausen Film Festival
November 15, 4:30 pm, Fully Booked High Street U-View: Short Film Seminar with Oberhausen Programmer Herbert Schwarze

FREE ENTRY. Limited seating. RSVP to cinemanila.entries@gmail.com to confirm.

Presented by Cinemanila and Goethe Institut Manila

Herbert Schwarze, Germany
Born 1959 in Augsburg, Germany. 1988–1993 filmstudies at the German Film and Television Academy, Berlin. Filmmaker, program curator and member of the selection committee for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, since 1997. Mainly working as a Dramatic Advicer, Script Consultant and Co-Author in both fields, fiction and documentary.

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The 2011 Cinemanila International Film Festival, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Manila and Taguig City under the leadership of Mayor Lani Cayetano, will hold at the Bonifacio Global City on 11.14.11, from 4 to 6 pm, a short film seminar by Herbert Schwarze, programmer and member of the selection committee for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, one of the largest short film festivals in the world. The seminar will precede Young Cinema Night, which is the premiere of the films in competition and exhibition of Cinemanila’s own short film program, Young Cinema.

Schwarze will screen 90 minutes worth of some of the best and prize-winning shorts in Oberhausen’s International Competition, including works from Uganda, South Africa, Portugal, Canada, France, and Poland. He will then talk about the Oberhausen Festival and its history. The following day, on 11.15.11, Schwarze will participate in a meet and greet with the participating Young Cinema filmmakers.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world, and one of the major international platforms for the short form. It is unique in the range of forms and genres it presents to the public, and particularly well-known for its spotlight on experimentation. In the course of more than five decades, filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas to Pipilotti Rist, have presented their first works in Oberhausen.

The festival organizes an International Competition, German Competition and International Children’s and Youth Film Competition as well as the MuVi Award for best German music video and, since 2009, the NRW Competition for productions from the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Oberhausen is also known for its strong line of thematic programs such as “From the Deep” in 2010, which presented early films from before 1918, or “Shooting Animals” in 2011, a program about the history of the artistic and scientific animal film. The festival also operates a well-stocked Video Library, a non-commercial short film distribution branch, and a unique archive of short films from more than 50 years of festival history. The 58th edition will take place from April 26 to May 1, 2012 with the big thematic program focusing on the 50th anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto from 1962.

Herbert Schwarze is one of the program curators and members of the selection committee for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen since 1997. He is also a filmmaker, dramatic adviser, script consultant, and author.

This is the first collaboration of Cinemanila and Oberhausen.

CELEBRATING FOOTBALL IN FILM – The Futkaleros marked the festival’s football program, “The Beautiful Game” with an exhibition of futkal tricks at the Opening Night of the 13th Cinemanila last 11.11.11. Philippine pop-rock icon Ely Buendia served as DJ, mixing beats on his iPhone.

The program features the world’s most popular sport — now played by around 250 million players in over 200 countries — football or soccer.

This year’s cinematic line-up will include documentaries about the world’s football heroes. Journey with a young American who struggles to reach his dreams of playing in the elite European leagues and the World Cup in Rise & Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story (2011). Immerse yourself in the intensity and flow of a single soccer match as 17 synchronized cameras follow French footballer Zinedine Zidane in Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait (2006). Then open your eyes to the relationship of crime, sports and politics in the gripping The Two Escobars (2010), the intertwined story of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and Colombian football star Andres Escobar who paid dearly for scoring an “own goal” in the 1994 World Cup.

Of course, soccer has always been great fodder for fiction as well, and Cinemanila has a feast of films to offer depending on your mood. Get a dose of social reality in Jafar Panahi’s Offside (2006), about Iranian girls attempting to watch a World Cup qualifying match despite their country’s law forbidding them to do so because of their sex. Then laugh as two young football-crazed Tibetan refugee novice monks in a remote Himalayan monastery in India desperately try to obtain a TV for the monastery to watch the 1998 World Cup final in The Cup (1999) by Bhutanese director Khyentse Norbu. And if you want drama, witness the rise and fall of a football star in The Striker with Number 9 (1989) by Greek filmmaker Pantelis Voulgaris. But if you fancy a combination of comedy and drama, enjoy — in one of the festival’s outdoor screenings — the critically-acclaimed and international hit Bend It Like Beckham (2002) by Gurinder Chadha, and starring Parminder Nagra & Keira Knightley. Finally, if you like coming-of-age stories, watch Happyland (2010) — by the Philippines’ very own Jim Libiran (with a cameo by Azkals star Phil Younghusband) — about a group of street kids who form a soccer team.

Screenings:

The Cup – November 13, 1:45pm, Fully Booked High Street
The Two Escobars – November 13, 7:00 pm, Market! Market! Cinema 5
Bend it Like Beckham – November 14, 7:00 pm, Bonifacio High Street
Zidane: A 21st Century Portait – November 14, 1:45 pm, Fully Booked High Street
Happyland – November 15, 4:30 pm, Cinema 4
Striker with the No.9 – November 15, 7:00 pm, Market! Market! Cinema 6
Rise and Shine: The Jay Demerit Story – November 17, 7:00 pm, Fully Booked High Street
Offside – November 17, 4:30 pm, Market! Market! Cinema 5

Philippine actress Nora Aunor receives her Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to Philippine and World Cinema at the 2011 Cinemanila Opening Night last 11.11.11.

Aunor is popularly regarded as the Superstar for her stellar achievements and enormous contribution — as actor, singer, TV host, and producer — to the entertainment industry.

As part of the homage to the multi-awarded Aunor, a short video tribute was shown during the presentation of the award. Throughout the festival, Cinemanila will screen (with English subtitles) classic films showcasing Aunor’s legendary acting talent, including Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (1976), and Himala (1982), winner in 2008 of the CNN APSA (Asia Pacific Screen Awards) Viewers Choice Award for Best Asia-Pacific Film of all Time.

Nora Aunor is a world-class artist as shown by the list of international organizations which gave her a Best Actress award, including the Cairo Film Festival (The Flor Contemplacion Story, 1995), East Asia Film and Television Festival (Bakit May Kahapon Pa?, 1997), Brussels Festival of Independent Films (Naglalayag, 2004). She was also nominated in the Berlin Film Festival for Himala and awarded the Certificate of Honor in the Cannes Film Festival for Bona.

With the Cinemanila Lifetime Achievement Award, Aunor will join an exceptional group of individuals who received the same award, such as US filmmakers Quentin Tarantino (2007) and Paul Schrader (2009), Indonesian actress and filmmaker Christine Hakim (2003), film programmers Aruna Vasudev and Philip Cheah (2006), Pusan International Film Festival founding director Kim Dong Ho (2005), and fellow Filipino artists Vilma Santos (2003), Eddie Romero (2004) & Dolphy (2010). Aside from these personalities, other special guests who graced Cinemanila in the past include Jafar Panahi (The Circle, 2000) and Fernando Meirelles (City of God, 2002).

Film Screenings:

Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos / Mario O’ Hara / Philippines, 1976 – November 16, 4:30 pm, Cinema 5
Bona / Lino Brocka / Philippines, 1980 – November 16, 9:00 pm, Cinema 5
Himala / Ishmael Bernal / Philippines, 1982 – November 17, 1:45 pm, Cinema 5

Dance in 3D: Cinemanila opens the festival with Wim Wender’s Pina 3D, the first 3D film shown at the festival.

Screening: November 12, 4:30 pm, Market! Market! Cinema 5

Buenas Noches, España
Spain / Philippines / 2011 / 70mins.
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi

Directed by: Raya Martin
Cast: Andrés Gertrúdix and Pilar López de Ayala

Synopsis:

In another lifetime, a Spanish couple takes drugs and teleports through their television set. A troubled young man travels through the countryside and meets a lost woman. During the trip, they discover a museum housing the expatriated paintings of the most important Filipino artist of the revolution. Eventually, the Spanish couple disappears toward their colony. Inspired by one of the earliest teleportation accounts, which happened between the Philippines and Mexico during the colonial period.

Festival Screenings/Awards:

German Film Awards, Argentina (Best Documentary), Berlin International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

About the Director:

Raya Martin Born in 1984 in Manila, Raya Martin was the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted in the Cinéfondation Résidence in Cannes. A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or the Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos) (2005), his first feature film, won Best Film at the Pesaro Film Festival. Then Autohystoria (2007) was awarded Best Film and Best Director at the Cinemanila International Film Festival. Now Showing(2008) was screened at the Directors’ Fortnight. His following worksIndependencia (2009) and Manila (2009) were shown at Cannes.