The gripping drama “Silenced Nights” will be the first Filipino feature to compete at the Skopje International Film Festival. The 26th edition of the festival will run from November 4 to 9. Director Lawrence Fajardo is slated to fly to North Macedonia to personally represent the film, engage...

A box of 1990s-era dishwashing paste and two empty spice jars were among the oddest of odds and ends—junk of the greatest variety—that her late Daddy Tirso had collected over the years. Editor-in-chief Lourdes “Chuchay” Fernandez of the BusinessMirror recalls how a box of “basura” (trash) turned into...

On a payday morning somewhere in Bulacan, a mother walks into a sari-sari store clutching a handful of coins. She asks for a sachet of shampoo, P10-worth of cooking oil, and a packet of instant coffee… Behind her, a tricycle driver quietly adds another loaf of bread and...