26/10/2017
The First Reel: Philippine Film Festival in Berlin: "Breaking Boundaries"
03/11/2017 - 12/11/2017
"The First Reel is the first festival of Philippine films to be held in Berlin. It is created and organised by the Philippine Studies Series Berlin, a platform founded by Rosa Cordillera Castillo for lectures, discussions, and art and film events on the Philippines, Filipino/a/x, and the diaspora. The First Reel festival founder and organizer is Visual Anthropologist Lola Abrera while filmmaker Trinka Lat is curator.
This year, the festival will run for eight days (November 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) at the historic Kino Moviemento (www.moviemento.de), and will show seven feature-length films, including a documentary, and a collection of short films. Each screening night will be followed by a discussion or Q&A with an international crop of filmmakers and scholars as well as members of the Filipino community in Germany on a topic relevant to the film. The 2017 festival theme “Breaking Boundaries” is a nod to the myriad ways in which this year’s films portray going beyond, challenging, confronting, and struggling against individual, economic, political, and societal boundaries. These are films on discovering one’s self, asserting one’s identity and rights, fighting for equality, struggling against oppression, and of reclaiming dignity."
The First Reel is a film festival and event series envisioned as a global platform for Filipino film
