ON August 15, Cinemalaya will
feature Bruma, a film by Mexican writer and director Max Zunino, under its CCP
Arthouse Cinema specials.
The film will be available for 24
hours only from midnight of August 15, 2020. The online screening is part of the Embassy of
Mexico's celebration of their Dia National Del Cine (National Film Day), an
annual event to promote Mexican cinema both in Mexico and around the world. The film will stream on Cinemalaya's Vimeo
platform for free.
In the Philippines, the
celebration is made possible by Embassy of Mexico in the Philippines, with the
support of the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, in partnership with the
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival.
Bruma or Mist, its English title,
is an 82-minute improvised production set between Mexico City and Berlin,
Germany.
In an interview for Variety at
the premier of the film in the Guanajuato International Film Festival in 2017,
Zunino described his work as an “exercise of spontaneity… and a search for
identity.”
In Bruma, a woman feels trapped
in a boxed life in Mexico City. Finding out about her pregnancy and not knowing
what to do about it, she decides to go to Berlin to search for the father, and
starts a trip where she will find her own identity.
Bruma is one of the international
films being featured in the ongoing Cinemalaya, which opened on August 7 and
runs until August 16 on the Vimeo platform.
Other foreign films from Cinemalaya’s Allied Festival partners
Europelikula and Japan Eiga Sai.
In view of the COVID-19
situation, the 16th edition of Cinemalaya migrates to an online platform, via
Vimeo. Cinemalaya Philippine Independent
Film Festival is a project of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the
Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. Established
in 2005, Cinemalaya is an all-digital film festival and competition that aims
to discover, encourage and honor cinematic works of Filipino filmmakers.
For inquiries on Cinemalaya,
visit www.cinemalaya.org or www.culturalcenter.gov.ph, or contact the CCP Media
Arts at 8832-1125 local 1704 to 1705 and the CCP Box Office at 8832-3704. Check out the official CCP and Cinemalaya
Facebook and Instagram accounts. (PR)
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