Set A of the festival has six shorts united by themes of liminality and alienation, populated by characters yearning for a life barely out of reach; desperately seeking a way to overcome the transitional phases of their lives
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This year’s festival not only attempts to recenter Manila as an iconic city for film and filmmaking but also seeks filmmakers whose visions of Manila can provide us with new ways of seeing the space and the lives that inhabit it. . Such explorations are characteristic of cinema’s wrestling with the urban space and the burden of shaping identity in an increasingly industrialized and globalized world.
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