BAKUNAWA FEST X
Full Schedule

DAY 1 – NOV 6, 2023 – MONDAY
Venue: VIDEOTHEQUE
FREE 10:00 AM : LET’S GO ISHIKAWA!! by TAKASHINA Takumi (Japan) 2022
TICKETS 2:00 PM : ZOOM by Pedro Morelli (Canada / Brazil) 2015
TICKETS 4:00 PM : POTRET MIMPI BURUK (THE PORTRAIT OF A NIGHTMARE) by Ismail Basbeth (Indonesia) 2022

DAY 2 – NOV 7, 2023 – TUESDAY
Venue: VIDEOTHEQUE
FREE 1:00 PM : WHERE IS MY HOME? by Samiran Deka, Bhaskar Jyoti Das (India) 2022
NATATANGING PALAYOK (THE EXCEPTIONAL POT) 2023, Ein Gil Camuñas (Philippines), elehiya para sa mga memorya (an elegy for the memories) 2022, Ryan Miguel Capili (Philippines)
FREE 4:00 PM : SHORTS PROGRAM : FATE SPEAKS LIKE MEMORIES DEPEND ON NATURE
If I Could Give You the Moon (20min) PH, Departure (5.11min) JP, Sa Piling Mo (12.32min) PH, Leonor (15min) ES, Karkarma (16.45min) PH, Blue Poetry (18.29) ID

DAY 2 – NOV 7, 2023 – TUESDAY
Venue: UPFI FILM CENTER (CINE ADARNA)
TICKETS 3:00 PM : MEMENTO MORI: DAT (MEMENTO MORI: EARTH) by Marcus Manh Cuong Vu (Vietnam) 2022
FREE 5:00 PM : RASUK (POSSESSED) James Lee (Malaysia) 2021
TICKETS 6:30 PM : COLOSSAL by Nacho Vigalondo (Canada / Spain) 2016

DAY 3 – NOV 8, 2023 – WEDNESDAY
Venue: VIDOTHEQUE
FREE 10:00 AM : TUMANDOK (INDIGENOUS) PROGRAM + DRAMATIC SHORTS
The Beyond (9min) CH, Repeated Memories (15min) KR, Redd Rose (11min, 5sec) PH, Inkar (17.22) KZ, Meca (8.18min) CA, The Creation of the World (10min) MX, Tiempos (8.52min) CO
TICKETS 11:30 AM : LOVING VINCENT by Dorota Kobiela (UK / Poland) 2017

DAY 3 – NOV 8, 2023 – WEDNESDAY
Venue: UPFI FILM CENTER (CINE ADARNA)
TICKETS 2:00 PM : COMPETITION SHORTS 4
Old Flames (4.37min) CA, The Boy and the Crow (2.49min) US/JP, Undo (10min, 22sec) PH, Willkawiwa (The Sacred Fire of the Dead) 14min EC, Pagtangis ng Mga Aninong Umiindak sa Hangin (13min, 50sec) PH
BATSOY by Ronald Espinosa Batallones (Philippines) 

TICKETS 5:00 PM : OPENING FILMS
Opening Film : ROCK-A-BYE BABY (BLACK & WHITE) by Director: Lê Bình Giang (Vietnaem) B&W Cut World Premiere
Opening Shorts: THE OLD YOUNG CROW by Liam LoPinto (Japan, USA); YOU WILL SEE by Kathleen Bu (Singapore); 第二十五孝 I THE 25TH FILIAL EXEMPLAR by Leon Cheo (Singapore) * ALL Philippine Premieres

DAY 4 – NOV 9, 2023 – THURSDAY
Venue: VIDEOTHEQUE
FREE 10:00 AM : SEJARAH KISAH KISAH YANG MUSNAH (HISTORY OF UNTELLABLE TALES) by BW Purbanegara (Indonesia) 2022 
SHORTS PROGRAM: MEMORIA DOLOROSA: Violet (14.25min) PH, Dinosaur (3.41) US, Solitaire (12:47min) NZ, Palette of Her (6.18min) PH, Sa Muli Nating Pagkikita (12.26min) PH, Magic Mushrooms (8.20min) CA
TICKETS 3:00 PM : ENEMY by Denis Villeneuve (Canada / Spain / France) 2013

DAY 4 – NOV 9, 2023 – THURSDAY
Venue: UPFI FILM CENTER (CINE ADARNA)
FREE 2:00 PM : SHORTS PROGRAM: WAG KANG JUDGER!
Night Show (15min) ES, The Judgement (12.25min) US, Consumed (10.46min) US, I think I left my soul behind (2.25min) PH, Where the Clownfish Meet the Clown (19.2min) ID, MakasaMa (10.44min) PH, Sisa (5min) PH, i am but a small boy (9.46 min) PH * (ALL PREMIERES except *)
SISIHIN SI SILVIA (BLAME IT ON SILVIA) by Francis Gacer (Philippines) 2022
TICKETS 4:00 PM : COMPETITION SHORTS 3
The Strange Events on Maple Street (14.7min) UK, Aracne (4min) MX, Paod (Yoke) 10min PH, El Padrasto (The Skin) 11.32min ES, Uknown Footage (4min) PH
JACKPOT ISLAND by Lê Bình Giang (Vietnam) 2022
TICKETS 6:30 PM : SILIP by Elwood Perez (Philippines) 1985
 

DAY 5 – NOV 10, 2023 – FRIDAY
Venue: UPFI FILM CENTER (CINE ADARNA)
FREE 10: 00 AM : 
FREE 1:00 PM : COMPETITION SHORTS 1
Demon Box (14min) CA, Los Pies Frios (Cold Feet) 15min ES, Sukat (Borders), 8.56 min PH
PROGRAM : EXCESSIVE DAWN
Hippomane Mancinella (Colombia), THE FOOLS - PRISON AND BABYLON 愚か者たちの歌  by TAKAHASHI Sinichi (Japan) 2022
FREE 4:00 PM : SHORTS PROGRAM: ARE YOU BEING HUNTED?
Heirlooms (16.57min) ID, Death Drive (5.30min) AU, Motomarine (Watercraft) 4.10min CA, Gacha Gacha (12min) JP,  Dead (5.38min) PL, La Chasseur (The Hunter) 7.39minIn CA, In Corpus (3min) ES
TICKETS BUT IF YOU COME IN COSTUME, YOU'RE FREE! 5:00 PM : SHORTS PROGRAM: PINOY HORROR & HEROES
Reimagined II : Mahal (20min) USA, The Companion (6.07 min) PH, The Adventure of Ursula (10min) PH, ​Happy Fiesta (8.35) PH, Defilement Twenty-one (3.53min) PH, Aswang (6.8min) PH, Roommates (1.15min) PH, Dead in the Dark (10miin) PH, Elegy to Carla (4.24min) PH, Super Alaya (8.18min) PH, Aga-hiw, The Dreamer (11.24min) PH

DAY 6 – NOV 11, 2023 – SATURDAY
Venue: VIDEOTHEQUE
TICKETS 10: 00 AM : JHINI BINI CHADARIYA (THE BRITTLE THREAD) by Ritesh Sharma, (India) 2022
FREE 1:00 PM : SHORTS PROGRAM : WORTH OF ONE'S BLOOD
The Peeper (12.47min) UA, Mahudmay (8min) PH, Goldilocks (9min) ES, En Tu Mente (In Your Head) ES, The Jewelers (15.18min) PH, Ventablvck (4min) CA, Dog Run (23.33 min) UK
FREE 3:00 PM : COMPETITION SHORTS 2
Quartzo (13min) BR, The Script (15min) AL / XK / MK, Tiempos (Times) 8.52min MX, Caterpillar (14min) UK, Untitled IV (15min) GR
FILMS FROM HIFF : Agur-Uray (13.39min) PH, Ang Kwento Kay Ila (7.54min) PH
TICKETS 5:00 PM CLOSING FILMS
RODA RODA NADA (THE TONE WHEELS) by Yuda Kurniawan (Indonesia)
Closing Shorts: PROMISE OF A WILD LOVE by Davi Mello (Brazil)
Sa Burutlakan (Where the Sun Rises) by Kyle Jabian, Aaron Escobido (Philippines)