CinePanalo 2026 Winners: Mono No Aware Wins Nine Awards, Including Best Picture
The third Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival named its winners on September 30 at Gateway Cinema 5 in Cubao. Screenings continue through October 4.
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Puregold’s New Theater Festival Got 373 Scripts in Its First Year. Only Twelve Will Reach the Stage.
Teatro Panalo, Puregold’s answer to CinePanalo for the stage, closed submissions with 373 original Filipino plays and musicals. Only twelve, eight plays and four musicals, will be staged, each with a ₱100,000 honorarium attached.
Puregold CinePanalo 2026: The 10 Panorama Shorts and 19 Student Films Screening Alongside the Main Lineup
Puregold CinePanalo 2026 opens today — the 10 Panorama Shorts, the 19 student films across four sets, and the pass on-sale timing that matters right now.
Wantawsan: A ₱1,000 Comedy Whose Own Lead Actor Skipped the Mediacon
“Wantawsan,” Puregold CinePanalo 2026’s opening-day entry, is a ₱1,000 comedy about a father and a political favor — its own lead actor skipped the mediacon.
Apol of My Ai: A Boy’s First Crush and His Widowed Father’s Are the Same Woman
A grade-schooler’s first crush collides with his widowed father’s at Puregold CinePanalo 2026 — plus what Zion Cruz’s pedigree brings to the lead role.
Mono No Aware: Juan Karlos Labajo Plays the Man Who Cleans Up After Japan’s Loneliest Deaths
Musician Juan Karlos Labajo takes his first real lead role in “Mono No Aware” at Puregold CinePanalo 2026 — the premise, the cast, and the crew pedigree behind it.
Multwoh: A Queer Ghost Story Sassa Gurl Says Is Her Own Life
Sassa Gurl calls “Multwoh,” her queer ghost-story entry at Puregold CinePanalo 2026, her own lived experience — the plot, cast, and festival dates.
‘Patay Gutom’ at CinePanalo 2026: A Ghost Story, a Directorial Debut, and a BL Crossover Years in the Making
Khalil Ramos and Ian Pangilinan cross two eras of Filipino BL cinema in “Patay Gutom” — a live-action/animation ghost romance, and Pangilinan’s directing debut.
CinePanalo 2026’s ‘Stuck on You’: When a Heartbroken Manicurist Becomes an Accidental Hitwoman
Xyriel Manabat and River Joseph turned a Pinoy Big Brother friendship into “Stuck on You” — a rom-com with a hitman’s job at its center, at CinePanalo 2026.
‘Beast’ at CinePanalo 2026: John Arcilla’s First Film Since His Venice Win Comes With a Singing Carabao
John Arcilla’s first film since his historic Venice win is a magic-realist road trip with a singing carabao — and CinePanalo 2026’s strangest, boldest bet yet.