Instituto Cervantes holds Cine Chabacano
INSTITUTO Cervantes de Manila, the Spanish cultural center, will hold Cine Chabacano, which showcases unique independent shorts filmed in the only Spanish-based Creole in Asia—chabacano— on March 8, 7 p.m.
“This film cycle is unlike other films coming from other regions of the Philippines and not only because of the language.
Somehow it’s like seeing films from another country,” said Philippine cinema expert Teddy Co, who curate the program.
The program opens with “Placebo,” a 22-minute short feature from the Zamboangan team behind the Cinemalaya award-winning film “Halaw.” Directed by Dexter de la Peña, this film chronicles the life of Jim, a convenience-store owner who months after his father’s death mans the family business all by his self. His boring store routine is interrupted when a vixen comes into the store and befriends him.
It will be followed with the screening of “Boca,” the story of a man with an oral fixation, presented by its director Zurich Chan.
Also to be shown are Ana Carlyn Lim’s “Un diuta’y mundo,” about an unknown narrator who watches a feral child locked in a room and who is witness to an aspiring writer’s growing friendship with the child; and Ryan Joseph Murcia’s “Sausage,” about a woman haunted by her past who seeks refuge in eating sausages washed down with wine.
Co and Chan will hold a forum on Chabacano cinema.
Cine Chabacano is organized by Instituto Cervantes de Manila in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines, and Spanish Agency International Cooperation for Development.
Admission is free, firstcome, first-served. Call 5261482 or visit http:// manila.cervantes.es Instituto Cervantes is at 855 TM Kalaw St., Ermita, Manila.