Photo from San Diego Filipino Cinema/Facebook A platform for Filipinos and Filipino Americans to showcase their unique stories, San Diego Filipino Film Festival (SDFFF) returns this weekend with a diverse film lineup. Marking its fourth year, the festival offers an impressive array of films that reflect Filipino filmmakers’ creative brilliance. It runs until Oct.
6 at the AMC Theatre Plaza Bonita in National City. Celebrating Filipino American History Month, SDFFF this year features six feature films and over 50 short films. Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address.
I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . Kicking off the festival is the film, “When This is All Over.” With the pandemic as its backdrop, the film explores the stark social divide in the Philippines.
Concluding the festival on Sunday is Gomburza, a historical film that portrays the story of three Filipino martyr priests who became instrumental in inspiring Filipinos to fight for independence during the Spanish colonial era. San Diego Filipino Film Festival co-founder Benito Bautista told KBPS, “In the Philippines, we were colonized by the Spanish and they used Christianity to colonize us.” This year’s festival also features Quark Henares’ “Marupok AF (Where is the Lie),” an LGBTQ+ meta-edgy romcom about a trans woman who experiences the horrors of online dating.
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