A Philippine Season: Kidlat Tahimik and Nick Deocampo

Philippinisches Kino: Eine Werkschau mit Kidlat Tahimik und Nick Deocampo

Artists: Kidlat Tahimik and Nick Deocampo

Curators: Patrick Flores and Natascha Gikas

 

Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF)

Schaumainkai 41, 60596 Frankfurt am Main

www.dff.film

 

SCHEDULE

Friday, October 10, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Opening Program

 

SCREENING

Friday, October 10, 2025, 8:15 p.m. / Tuesday, October 21, 8:30 p.m.

Mababangong Bangungot | The Perfumed Nightmare

Philippines/Germany, 1977

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

Saturday, October 11, 6:00 p.m.

 

Oliver

Philippines, 1983

Director: Nick Deocampo

 

Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song

Philippines, 1987

Director: Nick Deocampo

 

Saturday, October 11, 8:15 p.m.

Sino ang Lumikha ng Yo-yo?  / Who invented the yo-yo? / Who invented the moon buggy?

Germany/Philippines, 1982

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

 

Sunday, October 12, 2025, 5:00 p.m.

BALIKBAYAN # 1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux IV

Philippines, 2015

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

 

Tuesday, October 14, 6 p.m., Friday, October 24, 8:30 p.m.

Maynila, Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag / Manila in the Claws of Light

Philippines, 1975

Director: Lino Brocka

 

October 15, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Turumba / Olympic Gold

West Germany/Philippines, 1983

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

 

Thu, Oct. 16, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Memories of Overdevelopment

Philippines, 1984/2021

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

 

Thu, Oct. 16, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

Let This Film Serve as Manifesto for a New Cinema

Philippines, 1990

Director: Nick Deocampo

 

Private wars

Philippines, 1996

Director: Nick Deocampo

 

Saturday, October 18, 5:30 p.m.

Dekada ’70

Philippines, 2002

Director: Chito S. Roño.

 

Sunday, October 19, 12:00 p.m.

Magellan

Director: Lav Diaz

Sunday, October 19, 5:00 p.m. / Wednesday, October 29, 5:00 p.m.

 

Bakit Dilaw ang Gitna ng Bahaghari / Why Is Yellow at the Middle of the Rainbow?

Philippines, 1994

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

 

Thursday, October 30, 6 p.m.

Insiang / The Girl Insiang

Philippines, 1976

Director: Lino Brocka

 

The film program on the Philippines, occasioned by the country’s presence as Guest of Honour at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, presents a suite of works from National Artist Kidlat Tahimik and Nick Deocampo. Their practice has been shaped by reflections on culture, society, and society—rendered complex and urgent by the cinematic language they have honed and transformed over time. Their work has also come in contact with German history and exchanges built around film, testifying to the strong relationship between the Philippines and Germany both in the social world of cinema.

To be exhibited alongside their films are the works of National Artist Lino Brocka and the film adaptation of the novel of Lualhati Bautisa Dekada ’70 by Chito Roño.