Dreamanila International Film Festival

Dreamanila International Film Festival celebrates the best that world cinema could ever possibly harvest. We do not exist just to provide screening venues, we are here most importantly to encourage and support masters and emerging filmmakers to showcase their films to the world with the purest and most creative visions and intentions. We invite the most revered filmmakers and industry players to select winners among our carefully and intensively programmed entries

Manila, as the Philippines’ most exciting historical capital, provides sociocultural exchange of creativity, ideas, and market-building potentials for cultural artists and workers. Dreamanila will be a conducive place for audiences and filmmakers to engage with one another. The Festival features a host of screenings, panels, educational programs, and Q&A’s that nurture the socially conscious and innovative meetings of the free-spirited and creative minds of this generation.

In 2018, the founding edition of Dreamanila International Film Festival showcased over 30 films – 15 shorts and 15 films – both screened live and online among jurors and attendees. Filmmakers from USA to Iran, and as far and as exotic as Nigeria to homeland Philippines, highlighting new and exciting young filmmakers, established directors, and previously unscreened works borne out of creative experiments and independent spirits.

On our 2nd edition in May 2020, live online screenings and awards event was held during the COVID pandemic

Projecting the pandemic would be manageable 18 months later, the 3rd and present edition was expected to finally be held in a physical venue, but as we have come to know of the present condition, the Philippines remains hard-hit by the COVID-19 situation, and so on November 19-21, Dreamanila 2021 would be projected via the internet, on our YouTube channel via Livestreaming, with hopes that in the future, it will be gloriously reinstated in its rightful and most festive mode.

The heart of the Festival continues to beat in order to establish a wider reach in discovering more independent filmmakers with fervent social, political, and professional visions.

Experience World Cinema. Your Dreams. In Manila