Films on Mount Apo and Marawi screening on Cinemalaya

The independent film festival Cinemalaya stages its 17th season with its second online festival from August 6 to September 5, and features two award-winning Mindanaoan films, a documentary on Marawi evacuees and a full-length film shot in the country's highest peak Mount Apo.

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Maguindanao filmmaker Gutierrez ‘Teng’ Mangansakan

Filmmaker talks ‘Forbidden Memory’ and fighting military propaganda

Mangansakan has carried on the task of weaving history and current issues of displacement, discrimination, and self-determination struggles of Moro people into his films and documentaries. One of these is…

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THE PASSION. In observance of the Holy Week, a group of born-again Christians shows the final hours of Jesus through the 14 Stations of the Cross Thursday in Bankerohan, Davao City. This is the twelfth station where Jesus dies on the cross. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

A Long Black Saturday

When news came out that a fellow doctor got the coronavirus, it brought the reality of the disease close to home. Medically speaking, we have not seen the peak of COVID-19 yet, but it has already caused so many changes and disruption in our lives.

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THE PASSION. In observance of the Holy Week, a group of born-again Christians shows the final hours of Jesus through the 14 Stations of the Cross Thursday in Bankerohan, Davao City. This is the twelfth station where Jesus dies on the cross. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

The Social Dimension of the Celebration of the Lord’s Paschal Mystery

The Paschal Triduum refers to the threefold celebration of the Lord’ Supper (Holy Thursday), the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) and the Vigil of the Lord’s Resurrection (Easter) is the most important “celebration of faith” for us Christians.

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