| Screening Schedule |
| Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| Saturday, November 14, 2009 |
| Sunday, November 15, 2009 |
| Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| Saturday, November 21, 2009 |
| Sunday, November 22, 2009 |
The screening schedule of the 50th T.I.F.F. is also available in.pdf format
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| Director | | Raya Martin | 
Filmography
2004 Bakasyon (short)
2005 The Island at the End of the World (doc.)
2005 A Short Film about the Indio Nacional (or The Prolonged Sorrow of the Filipinos)
2007 Autohystoria
2008 Now Showing
2009 Independencia
2009 Manila (co-direction: Adolfo Alix, Jr.)
Biography
He was born in 1984 in Manila and graduated from the University of the Philippines Film Institute in 2005. He has worked as a writer and researcher in local television, newspaper, radio and online magazines. His short film Bakasyon won the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema at the Cinemanila IFF 2004. His first and second feature filmswon various national and international awards. He is the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted at the Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes FF. His previous work, Now Showing, was presented at the 40th Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2008. Independencia and Manila (co-directed with Adolfo Alix, Jr.) screened at the Cannes FF Official Selection 2009.
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A Short Film about the Indio Nacional (or The Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos) / Raya Martin |  One of the most ambitious Filipino films in the last decade, Martin’s gorgeously photographed Indio Nacional is a collection of silent film actualities revolving around the Indio, the common man during colonial times. Set in the 1890s brewing revolution of Filipinos against Spain and follows the life of an Indio in three different phases. A loving historical tribute, it tells the story of a child church bell-ringer torn between his duties to the Spanish state and as a Filipino, then a pubescent caught in the growing pressures of the revolution, and finally an actor in a rural community escaping his troubled soul. Running at 96 minutes, this silent film invokes the atmosphere and nostalgia of the forgotten era of silent films.
| | Director: | Raya Martin | | Script: | Raya Martin | | Photographer: | Maisa Demetillo | | Montage: | Louie Quirino, Anne Esteban | | Sound: | Tad Ermitaño, Joe Hernandez | | Music: | Khavn De La Cruz | | Art Direction: | Vincent Viray | | With: | Suzette Velasco (woman), Bodjie Pascua (storyteller), Lemuel Galman (Indio boy), Mark Joshua Maclang (Indio teenager), Russel Ongkeko (Indio man), the Barasoain Kalinangan Theater Group | | World Sales: | Cinematografica, Philippines T. +63 2 7497 425 arleencuevas@gmail.com | | Production Design: | Joy Domingo | | Producer: | Raya Martin, Arleen Cuevas | | Production: | Cinematografica, Philippines | | Production Country: | Philippines | | Type: | 35mm Color-B&W | | Duration: | 96' | | Production Year: | 2005 |
| Screening Schedule | | JOHN CASSAVETES: | Friday, November 13, 2009 - 15:00 | ID:053 | | PAVLOS ZANNAS: | Monday, November 16, 2009 - 15:00 | ID:323 | | Return |
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