Including the likes of Wong Kar-wai and Bong Joon-ho, Quentin Tarantino has routinely championed the works of talented filmmakers who deserve recognition.
Seven months into his term as chairman and CEO of the Film Development Council of the Philippines, Tirso Cruz III has not slowed down in initiating projects and implementing them.
From Dekada 70 and Batch 81 to Liway and Portraits of Mosquito Press, these are the best movies and documentaries about the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution and the Marcoses.
For a retrospective series at the Berlin International Film Festival, directors and actors selected formative coming-of-age movies. Their choices show links between the cinematic past and present.
The 1956 film is essentially about Apu's adolescence and growing apart from his mother. The film highlights the underlying conflict of the mother-son relationship.