LOOKING for films to stream while you’re at the comforts of home? Make your days until the weekend flavorful. We got this week’s picks for you.
Midnight in a Perfect World
The film is about four friends trying to survive the mysterious blackouts that happen in random parts of the city after midnight.
True Mothers
Japan’s entry at the 93rd Academy Awards and is a 2020 Cannes Film Festival selection. True Mothers is about the adoptive parents of a five-year-old who are confronted with the possibility that the troubled birth mother wants her baby back.
Marygoround
A black comedy drama about Mary, a lonely, small-town grocery store worker and an agnostic collector of virgin Mary statues who lives a boring and uneventful life. Struggling with menopause, she consults her doctor, who prescribes her a course of hormone replacement therapy.
End of the Century
This tells the story of two men who meet in Barcelona and after spending a day together they realize that they have already met twenty years ago.
Mulholland Drive
The remastered version of David Lynch’s 2001 Masterpiece “Mulholland Drive” follows a woman who becomes amnesiac after a car accident on Los Angeles’ Mulholland Drive and an aspiring actress. The two embark on a search for clues throughout the city, where dreams and reality intertwine.
Roh
Emir Ezwan’s “Roh” is a 2019 Malaysian Malay-language indie arthouse horror film. It is Malaysia’s entry to the 93rd Academy Awards. Set in the past, the film is about a family in the forest who gets an unwelcoming visit from a strange little girl, who comes with a frightening prediction.
These noteworthy films were selected in this year’s online QCinema International Film Festival and up for streaming starting Dec. 2-6.
The films are for streaming upstream.ph. Aside from these films, QCinema Highlights “Cleaners” by Glenn Barit; “Oda sa Wala”by Dwein Baltazar; “Balangiga: Howling Wilderness” by Khavn; and “Babae at Baril” by Rae Red, which started streaming Nov. 27./PN
