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Juxtapositions, interpretations, interpolations, modulations. Form and content merge to create natural forms from dots, make substance from absence and make the abstract concrete.

Escaping from situations we don’t want to be in, or undertaking a journey to experience a new life, are explored in these films.

Nora Aunor, star of Lino Brocka’s Bona and countless other Pinoy movies, ends her semi-retirement with one of the most challenging roles she’s ever played: Shaleha, the midwife in a Muslim fishing village in the southern Philippines.

If John Milius had written only the line, ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning’ or contributed to Quint’s USS Indianapolis monologue in Jaws, he would have earned his place in film history - he did these things, of course, and more.

Using evocative wintry locations, the film builds a powerful sense of impending disaster as a violent cat-and-mouse game is remorselessly played out.

A provocative demolition of traditional family values, Ifa Isfansyah’s highly entertaining film tackles a wide range of issues, from gay secrets to marital infidelity.

Gore Vidal, novelist, polemicist, wit, bon vivant, intellectual, radical journalist, died in July 2012 aged 86 but he’s brought back to life, in all his dazzling, provocative aspects, in Nicholas Wrathall’s engaging documentary.

This magical realist fable tells of a Filipino albino searching for his identity while, believing that he is the son of an American, trying to learn English through reading translations and definitions from a Tagalog-English dictionary.

The Wishful Thinkers is a film about the craft of making work, but it’s also both a boy-meets-girl tale and a seductive homage to Madrid.

Shame is a profound and moving portrait of the human reality behind a disaster that resonated throughout the world.