UPFI Film Center

19/05/2026

13/05/2026

Food and Fire: Ecologies of War from Palestine to the Philippines
About the Discussion and Resource Speakers

UPFI Cine Adarna, UP Diliman
Monday, May 18
2 to 5 PM

Following the screening program, Food and Fire: Ecologies of War from Palestine to the Philippines presents a talkback session with speakers Ige Ramos, Gail Orduña, and Fatma Cargolio, moderated by Menchani Tilendo.

Featuring the Philippine premiere of Foragers alongside Philippine short films, Flush, Pastil: Parehas re ta’g Kan-on’g Ginakaon, Saimah Domado Monir, Food for Peace, and Manang, the program foregrounds food as a lens to examine power, resistance, and survival in Palestine and Philippines. Engaging with the themes across the selected films, the conversation navigates how personal histories and everyday food practices serve as counter-narratives that reframe our dominant understanding of memory, identity, and history.

To eat, to fish, to forage is to remain. And to remain together in conversation is to resist erasure.

This film program is open to the public and is free of charge.

13/05/2026

**Now available: PELIKULA Vol. 10.**

This milestone issue brings together work on cinema, history, culture, form, and moving-image practice, while extending the journal’s ongoing attention to archives, regions, publics, and the worlds that films help us see.
Visit pelikulajournal.com

12/05/2026

07/05/2026

Food is never just food.

Food and Fire: Ecologies of War from Palestine to the Philippines brings together powerful films that trace how food becomes a site of struggle, memory, and resistance—from Marawi to Palestine. Featuring Philippine animations and documentaries, the program culminates in Foragers (2022) by Jumana Manna, examining the criminalization of traditional practices under الاحتلال.

As conflict reshapes landscapes and lives, these works reveal how food systems are entangled with power, survival, and history.

Join us and be part of the conversation

01/05/2026

Join us on May 18, 2 PM at the UPFI Film Center for the screening of The Last Fish in the World (Tina Basco, Patricia Sim), Flush (Roland Cartagena), Pastil: Parehas re ta’g Kan-on’g Ginakaon (Andrei Francis C. Arrocena), Saimah Domado Monir, Food for Peace (Babai Women’s Network), and Manang (Eizen Alilam, Kaycel Galvez, Victor Macam III, Larz Salas, Leaux Ambrocio)--Part of Food and Fire: Ecologies of War from Palestine to the Philippines.

Stay for a post-screening discussion as we gather, reflect, and connect across geographies shaped by struggle and sustenance.

More details to follow. Save the date. Bring a friend. Be part of the conversation.

CURATORIAL NOTE:
Food and Fire: Ecologies of War from Palestine to the Philippines film program brings together a rare constellation of films that foreground the politics of food. It gathers short Philippine animations and documentaries engaging with consumption and conflict, and culminates in the Philippine premiere of Foragers (2022), a hybrid documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Jumana Manna that examines the criminalization of traditional foraging practices under Israeli law.

Across these works, food emerges as a site of struggle. From Marawi to Palestine, the program traces how food carries cultural memory while remaining fundamental to life. In contexts of conflict, it is also among the first to be threatened. The ongoing regional war—marked by escalating U.S., Israeli, and Iranian geopolitical tensions—lays bare the fragility and control of global food systems, exposing how infrastructures of extraction and distribution are increasingly militarized and regulated.

Together, the films underscore how deeply interconnected these ecologies are. Food is reframed as both sustenance and archive—at once a material necessity and a record of histories shaped by resistance and dispossession.

30/04/2026

Join us on May 18, 2 PM at the UPFI Film Center for the Philippine premiere of Foragers by Jumana Manna, part of Food and Fire: Ecologies of War from Palestine to the Philippines.

Stay for a post-screening discussion as we gather, reflect, and connect across geographies shaped by struggle and sustenance.

More details to follow. Save the date. Bring a friend. Be part of the conversation.

CURATORIAL NOTE:
Food and Fire: Ecologies of War from Palestine to the Philippines film program brings together a rare constellation of films that foreground the politics of food. It gathers short Philippine animations and documentaries engaging with consumption and conflict, and culminates in the Philippine premiere of Foragers (2022), a hybrid documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Jumana Manna that examines the criminalization of traditional foraging practices under Israeli law.

Across these works, food emerges as a site of struggle. From Marawi to Palestine, the program traces how food carries cultural memory while remaining fundamental to life. In contexts of conflict, it is also among the first to be threatened. The ongoing regional war—marked by escalating U.S., Israeli, and Iranian geopolitical tensions—lays bare the fragility and control of global food systems, exposing how infrastructures of extraction and distribution are increasingly militarized and regulated.

Together, the films underscore how deeply interconnected these ecologies are. Food is reframed as both sustenance and archive—at once a material necessity and a record of histories shaped by resistance and dispossession.

30/04/2026

Tickets are going fast! Kaya ‘wag mo nang palampasin na mapanood si Sisa sa big screen. ☺️

Limited walk-ins only. Magsisimula ang ticket selling ng 3:00 n.h. 🎟️

Takits sa UP Film Center - Cine Adarna mamaya!

29/04/2026

SISA GOES TO UP! 🎬

Sa paparating na screening ng Sisa ni Jun Robles Lana sa UPFI Film Center - Cine Adarna, kilalanin ang mga mahahalagang utak sa likod ng pagbuo nito sa ating Talkback Session!

Jun Robles Lana at Carlo Mendoza.

Muli, Inihahandog ng UP Cinema at katuwang ang The IdeaFirst Company, inaanyayahan namin kayo ng dumalo sa screening ng:

🎬 Sisa (2025), directed by Jun Robles Lana

🗓 April 30, 2026 (Thursday) | 5:00 PM

🗯 With Talkback

🎟 P150.00 – Discounted (Students, PWDs, and Government Employees)
🎟 P200.00 – Regular Admission

There will be walk-in tickets selling with very limited quantity only.

Unfortunately, the registration form is now closed.

28/04/2026

Each line tells a story. Each word carries a lifetime of thought, art, and conviction.

Step into the mind and legacy of Virginia Moreno—poetess, visionary, and founding director of the UP Film Center—through a powerful exhibit of her most resonant quotations. The exhibit runs at the Bernal Gallery from April 29 to May 7, 2026, as part of UPFI’s celebration of National Literature Month. Don’t miss this intimate encounter with literature, film, and history as it coincides with special screenings of Itim Asu and A Duel of Command.

21/04/2026

National Literature Month 2026 this April at UPFI Film Center with a treasure trove of select features: Itim Asu + A Duel of Command + Tatarin.

Combo of screenings constitutes a most fitting tribute to poet and playwright Virginia R. Moreno (b. 24 April 1924; d. 14 August 2021); National Artist Nick Joaquin (b. 4 May 1917; d. 29 April 2004) and film director Tikoy Aguiluz (b. 23 September 1952; d. 18 February 2024).

From the Spanish colonial-era lore that inspired the enigmatic novel attributed to Father Jose Burgos, Itim Asu is the filmed dance of National Artist Alice Reyes’ celebrated adaptation of the famed play, The Onyx Wolf, by Virginia R. Moreno. A Duel of Command is a live action short dramatizing extracts from Nick Joaquin’s book of essays on history, A Question of Heroes. Tatarin produced by Viva Films is the big-screen version of Nick Joaquin’s short story, Summer Solstice, directed by Tikoy Aguiluz and written by National Artist Ricky Lee.

UPFI FILM CENTER
April 2026
National Literature Month
April 29 (Wednesday)

2 PM - Itim Asu + A Duel of Command
4 PM - Tatarin

VENUE: Videotheque
FREE ADMISSION