Cinema Centenario opened its operation in 2017 through its program Maginhawa Film Festival that started as a showcase of Filipino films. It was later developed to become a competition festival in its second year lining up the best Filipino films of 2018.
This year, we go full circle by making Maginhawa Film Fest the closing program of Centenario and the launching of MOOV, our virtual cinema.
We present you this year’s Festival poster with the theme,
T R A N S I T I O N as we in Centenario move forward in providing you, our beloved audience an online space to appreciate cinema within the confines and safety of your homes.
Watch and support all 26 competing short films from the Open and Student Categories for only 160Php as we launched MFF2020 – Early Bird Pass available today until October 31, 2020.
Open Category
The film is set in 2019. A small film crew is standing by as its members prepare for a shoot. The director says action and the timeline jumps. A 60-year-old cinephile spends his last days selling original copies, also the only copies, of Cebuano films just outside the entrance of a theater in downtown Cebu…
A closeted gay man in his 60s has been living with HIV for 10 years. His monotonous life takes a sudden turn when he receives an old vinyl record from his dead ex-lover.
“Ang Laswa ni Lola Mame” is a narrative film about concealing the trauma of Lola Mame in her experience of World War II. She tries to hide the painful past from her grandson, Sen through cooking. However, there are no secrets hidden forever.
ANG NAGLILIYAB NA ASAYSAYAN NG PAMILYA DELA CRUZ
Set during the year 1971, this film follows the story of the Dela Cruz family who lives in Central Luzon, the rice granary of the Philippines. The family is composed of Lina, Nestor, and their only child, Tonio, whose lives are constantly being threatened and exposed to acts of violation and exploitation due to their peasantry.
DUDE PARE BRO
The film is set in 2019. A small film crew is standing by as its members prepare for a shoot. The director says action and the timeline jumps. A 60-year-old cinephile spends his last days selling original copies, also the only copies, of Cebuano films just outside the entrance of a theater in downtown Cebu…
FML
The film “fml” revolves around Lexie-a 17-year-old teenager who overshares in social media. After an eventful day out, Lexie found herself alone in a terminal, waiting for a ride home. She cure her boredom by checking her profile and random people’s stories on Instagram…
HUNI SA KAHILOM
In the contemporary suspense drama ” The Sound of Silence”, Gabriela Magsayo must escape and runaway after an intruder hunt and forces her for sexual slavery.
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INSRT FEELING
A lonely writer wants to remember the word for a specific feeling to complete a piece he is writing –but is challenged by him unable to connect and express it to other people. In the end, a familiar character will make him realize that a word isn’t enough to describe a feeling.
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NILALANG
A young lady screams in silence as she seeks salvation from the evil that surrounds her.
SILANG MGA NAKATAGO SA DILIM
A tyrannical patriarch lives with his family in a secluded place where fear and ignorance keep them together. When his son, Toto, lives up to what he’s accustomed to; he fell into the realization of their hapless state.
TAYO
Reg is a socially awkward stand up comedian who gets help from his imaginary friend: Alyssa, but when Reg is supposed to give the performance that will boost his comedy career, Alyssa suddenly vanishes.
TOKWIFI
As Limmayug carries firewood back to his home village, something falls from the sky: a 1950s television, with a hysterical showbiz star trapped inside it. She is Laura Blancaflor. The frightened man saves the television — nay, saves Laura — from the flames of the impact…
VIRAL KIDS
Viral Kids is about the trending stories of five different street children who have their own past and dreams but being hindered and utilized by an unknown force behind the online scheme.
Open Category
ANG NAGLILIYAB NA ASAYSAYAN NG PAMILYA DELA CRUZ
DUDE PARE BRO
FML
HUNI SA KAHILOM
INSRT FEELING
NILALANG
SILANG MGA NAKATAGO SA DILIM
TAYO
TOKWIFI
VIRAL KIDS
Student Category
Karen, an indigenous people’s and women’s rights advocate, tries to navigate her role as a daughter, and her place as a woman in a tumultuous society.
The film is all about Isaac, He is a seafarer who wants to give a beautiful life to his family but eventually his work affects his relationship to his children. Isaac always feels the distance with his daughter (Alayssa)…
A law student struggling to forget her ex finds a way to delete her memory of him and their entire relationship but in the process of doing so, accidentally deletes everything she has reviewed for her upcoming BAR exam.
Gian and Rona are a troubled couple disturbed by a recent tragedy. They decide to visit a beach house where their relationship started hoping to start anew by recapturing long lost happiness that they once had.
Maggie San Pedro, a transferee student tries to win friends through Baon Royale. An underground game by Grade 5 Malusog, each student vies to win the favor of their gamemaster, Maestro by offering him the best-tasting baon.
Lucia finds out that their family maid, Maria is pregnant and claims that it is God’s child. They plan to use Maria as part of their political campaign but through Gab’s drawings, something will be revealed.
A girl lost in the forest encountered a crossroad where she must decide which path to take or stay and be consumed by the wilderness.
Cloud and Dawn are living their days, enjoying each other’s company. One day, Cloud arrives home to find Dawn collapsed on the floor, and as he tries–and fails–to save her, he becomes consumed with grief and self-loathing…
A mother goes home from his child’s funeral. Before sleeping, the mother is bothered by a lost family picture, while her husband tries to comfort her. She recalls the story when she found her son lying in the garden, staring at the sky…
A night before its television episode screening, a visual effects artist, ARGEE, asks help from his long-time editor friends, LEO and QUENTIN, to edit three versions of a visual effects sequence to be finished under 4 hours to prevent Argee from being fired from his job…
Gel a bisexual woman who is still in the process of moving on from her almost relationship invites her friends on a quick getaway, little did she know her friends invited Nikki as well who happens to be her lover. One night, her friends asked and questioned about her sexual preference (bisexual) which confuses everyone in the group…
Jems, a middle-aged trans woman, is forced to walk home from her shift at a gay disco bar due to a jeepney strike.
OPEN CATEGORY ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 13 films under the
Open Category.
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Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on: Nov. 11 to 22, 2020.
STUDENT CATEGORY ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 13 films under the Student Category.
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Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on: Nov. 11 to 22, 2020.
EARLY BIRD
ALL- ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 26 MFF 2020 films. (Open & Student Categories.)
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Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on : Oct. 21 - 31, 2020 only.
MFF 2020
ALL- ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 26 MFF 2020 films. (Open & Student Categories.)
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Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on: Nov. 11 to 22, 2020.
Buy MOOV Passes
EARLY BIRD
ALL- ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 26 MFF 2020 films. (Open & Student Categories.)
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Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on : Oct. 21 - 31, 2020 only.
MFF 2020
ALL- ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 26 MFF 2020 films. (Open & Student Categories.)
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Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on: Nov. 11 to 22, 2020.
OPEN CATEGORY
ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 13 films under the
Open Category.
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Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on: Nov. 11 to 22, 2020.
STUDENT CATEGORY ACCESS PASS
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Watch all the 13 films under the
Student Category. -
Access date:
Nov. 11 to Nov. 22, 2020. -
Available for purchase on: Nov. 11 to 22, 2020.
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