This year’s Argentine Film Festival is not yet over with the upcoming “Crime Cinema” series.
Catch five (5) crime, drama and/or thriller movies to be screened this October at all FDCP Cinematheques!
Paco (2009 / Drama / 128 min) is the story of Francisco, a young psychics teacher who starts consuming drugs. His mother, a well known congresswoman and Nina, the woman who will try to save him from a horrible future.
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the Nueve Reinas (“Nine Queens” / 2000 / Drama, Mystery, Thriller / Rated R / 114 min).
When affluent Buenos Aires doctor Agustin sets into the shoes of this dead yokel brother, Pedro. In Todos Tenemos Un Plan (“Everyone has a plan” / 2012 / Drama, Thriller / Rated R / 118 min), he sets in train a series of events that will lead him into sights of the police.
Un Oso Rojo (“Red Bear” / 2002 / Drama / 94 min) focuses on the life of Ruben, an ex-con who’s trying to put his criminal past behind him. He finds that his ex-wife is now living with Sergio and his daughter, Alicia, has forgotten who he is.
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure. One of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior. Both still haunt him decades later in El Secreto de Sus Ojos (“The Secret in Their Eyes” / 2009 / Crime, Drama, Investigative / 126 min).
Admission
All screenings are free on a first-come, first-served basis.
Screening Schedule
- FDCP Cinematheque Manila, October 4-7
| Date | Movie | Time |
| Oct 4 / Tuesday | El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 4:00 PM |
| Nueve Reinas | 7:00 PM | |
| Oct 5 / Wednesday | Todos Tenemos Un Plan | 7:00 PM |
| Oct 6 / Thursday | Nueve Reinas | 5:00 PM |
| Un Oso Rojo | 7:00 PM | |
| Oct 7 / Friday | Paco | 5:00 PM |
| El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 7:00 PM |
- FDCP Cinematheque Davao, October 11-16
| Date | Movie | Time |
| Oct 11 / Tuesday | El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 3:30 PM |
| Nueve Reinas | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 12 / Wednesday | Paco | 3:30 PM |
| Un Oso Rojo | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 13 / Thursday | El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 3:30 PM |
| Nueve Reinas | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 14 / Friday | Paco | 3:30 PM |
| Un Oso Rojo | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 15 / Saturday | El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 3:30 PM |
| Nueve Reinas | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 16 / Sunday | Paco | 3:30 PM |
| Un Oso Rojo | 5:30 PM |
- FDCP Cinematheque Baguio, October 18-23
| Date | Movie | Time |
| Oct 18 / Tuesday | Paco | 10:00 AM |
| Oct 19 / Wednesday | Un Oso Rojo | 10:00 AM |
| Oct 20 / Thursday | Nueve Reinas | 10:00 AM |
| Oct 21 / Friday | El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 10:00 AM |
| Oct 22 / Saturday | Nueve Reinas | 10:00 AM |
| Oct 23 / Sunday | El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 10:00 AM |
- FDCP Cinematheque Iloilo, October 18-23
| Date | Movie | Time |
| Oct 18 / Tuesday | El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 3:30 PM |
| Un Oso Rojo | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 19 / Wednesday | Nueve Reinas | 3:30 PM |
| Paco | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 20 / Thursday | Todos Tenemos Un Plan | 3:30 PM |
| El Secreto de Sus Ojos | 5:30 PM | |
| Oct 21 / Friday | Nueve Reinas | 5:30 PM |
| Oct 22 / Saturday | Paco | 5:30 PM |
| Oct 23 / Sunday | Todos Tenemos Un Plan | 5:30 PM |
This event is made possible by the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in the Philippines and the FDCP through the Film Cultural Exchange Program.
For more information on the Argentine Film Festival “Crime Cinema”, visit www.facebook.com/ArgentinaEnFilipinas or the film festival’s Facebook event page.