(Don't) Look Back (Special Edition 2020)
Artwork by Donsuki
In these times of “ngilngig” uncertainties, we in Pasalidahay have come up with these film conversations, as we contemplate regional cinema in the time of the pandemic.
Be part of this year’s Ngilngig Film Conversations:
MINDANAO SHORTS from the previous Ngilngig Film Camps open this year’s Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival special edition.
Bonfire Stories take you to ngilngig journeys through waking life, death, and the afterlife.
PHILIPPINE SHORTS section is a collection of Ngilngig short films from Filipino filmmakers over the years. The program is an intersection of various influences from folklore to found footage, from mystical landscapes to the dark recesses of cyberspace. This section has progressed from being a non-Mindanao section to fully embracing a more holistic panorama of the Filipino “ngilngig” experience. In keeping with innovative explorations of the Bisaya term “ngilngig”, the festival acknowledges the diverse cinematic expressions of horror and the grotesque – from traditional fears of the supernatural to the postmodern paranoias of our troubled times.
The Ngilngig ASIAN SHORTS section is a collection of short films from Asian filmmakers who have been part of this new expansion and re-branding of the festival into what it is now. With the inclusion of Asian films in the Ngilngig film program, we discover that there are more affinities than “ghostly demarcations” – from the usual genre staples to excursions in the realm of the surreal and the fantastic.
ANIMATED SHORTS
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
While Ngilngig has started as horror genre festival in 2015, over the years we realized the various articulations of the Bisaya word have expanded in fascinating and fantastic ways with the growing submissions from all over the Philippines and Asia. These experimental, genre-bending works that have been part of the past editions of the festival have shown us that the expression of horror cannot anymore be just trapped in the usual tropes and conventions of the genre but has leaped out of the box and have shown and surprised us with new ways of storytelling and image-making. Indeed, WTF.
DANCE FILMS
NGILNGIG SUPER SHORTSt 2020 is a compendium of 1 minute films from PH filmmakers who were programmed from the previous festival editions.
GALAWANG NGILNGIG Ngilngig 2020 Closing Screening and Virtual Party featuring “Quatro Kantos” by Dhyana Mitta with Willie Apa, Albarracin Dan Lester, and Deewdeew
DONATE & GET INVOLVED
As part of Ngilngig’s desire to give back to its relentless volunteers over the years, a “Halad” or Fund Our Volunteers is created to supplement expenses previously paid by the volunteers themselves during the festival.
5.00 $
The Ngilngig Is You 