Kularts' Artistic Director Alleluia Panis opens the YBCA New Filipino Cinema series with intuitive movement and performance of 'Ritwal' with vocalist Kristine Sinajon and harpist Lizae Reyes.

Film synopsis: the image of the child Christ, the Santo Niño, holds special significance to the Filipino faithful. It is said to cause miracles, the idol a perfect representation of the country's strange conflation of religion and superstition. It is why a young boy has been dressed up as the Santo Niño in this clever dissection of a fading aristocratic family. With the patriarch fallen ill, the debts piling up, the house crumbling, and the family falling apart, all that's left is to pray for a miracle. With studied grace, Niño explores a social class rarely depicted in Filipino films, revealing a deeply human core to aristocracy. (2011, 100 min).

This screening is the first in the YBCA series: New Filipino Cinema
June 7-10 & 17 | Screening room
This is a showcase of new cinema from one of the most exciting independent film scenes in the world: 29 films, 24 US premieres, 5 days. From drama, to documentary, to mockumentary, to cutting-edge experimental work, it's the most comprehensive survey of contemporary Filipino cinema presented in the United States. (MORE)

All films are presented digitally, in their original language with English subtitles. 

 

Mondays | July 9, 16, 23, 30 | 7:30-9:30PM  
Alonzo King Lines Dance Center
26 Seventh Street, San Francisco (MAP)

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Deadline for Series 2 registration is Monday, July 2.  
Join Master Artist Jay Loyola, adopted son of a Tagbanua tribe and former Associate Choreographer and Principal Dancer of the internationally celebrated and critically acclaimed Bayanihan Dance Company, for a workshop intensive in movement and themes of Philippine dance with focus on the indigenous traditions of the Palawan people.