The 19th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival has announced that ‘Salome’ will have its international premiere at this year’s festival. GenSan-based filmmaker Gutierrez Mangansakan II expressed his excitement about the news in a Facebook post.
"I'm ecstatic that my film Salome is in the official selection of the 19th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. JAFF is one of the most important film festivals of my career. It's the first one to have a retrospective of my works. It's also where I received my first international film award," Mangansakan shared.
The film revolves around Andres Galicia, an art critic, historian, and professor, who loses his memory due to chronic alcoholism. In an effort to retrieve his memories, he visits his cousin Christine in Mindanao. He begins dreaming of a woman named Salome, depicted in a catalog for an exhibition he is curating to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s arrival in the Philippines.
When a local historian, Fabian, seeks Andres' help to stop the desecration of a site dedicated to a Spanish colonial-era priestess named Salome, the true identity of a mysterious woman appearing as a housemaid in Christine’s house begins to unravel.
Mangansakan is a writer, editor, visual artist, curator, and filmmaker. He is one of the leading figures in the Regional Cinema New Wave Movement which seeks to decentralize the practice and aesthetics of cinema from the film centre in Manila. His cinematic works have explored issues of historical memory, gender and class struggle, colonialism, religious freedom, armed conflict, and state fascism.
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (JAFF) is a premier Asian film festival in Indonesia, focusing on the development of Asian cinema. The festival not only introduces Asian cinema to a wider public in Indonesia but also serves as a platform for the intersection of arts, culture, and tourism.
Since its inception, JAFF has collaborated closely with NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema), a global organization with 30 member countries.
Headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, NETPAC is a pan-Asian film and cultural organization comprising critics, filmmakers, festival organizers and curators, distributors and exhibitors, as well as educators. It is considered a leading authority in Asian cinema.
The 19th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival will run from November 30 to December 7, 2024.
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