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Christmas in the Philippines, one of two predominantly Catholic countries in Asia (the other one being East Timor), is one of the biggest holidays in the archipelago. The country has earned the distinction of celebrating the world's longest Christmas season, with Christmas carols heard as early as September and lasting until Epiphany, the feast of the Black Nazarene on January 9 or the Feast of the Santo Niño de Cebú on the third Sunday of January. The official observance is from 16 December with the beginning of the Simbang Gabi to Epiphany.
Plenty of Filipino Customs and Traditions make the Christmas Season in the Philippines an exciting and challenging affair. These include the shopping, the bazaars, endless Christmas Parties, the Simbang Gabi and food that get popular only during Christmas time.
The various ethnic groups in the Philippines each observe different Christmas traditions, and the following are generally common to all.
In urban areas like Metro Manila, many offices organize Christmas parties. These are usually held during the second week of December, or right before schools and universities go on holiday. Common activities include Monito/Monita (Kris Kringle), musical or theatrical performances and parlor games. Food is provided either through potluck, or via a pool of contributions to buy food. Some have fireworks displays.
Actors: Mike Downey (producer), Emir Hadzihafizbegovic (actor), Ljubo Kapor (actor), Mickey Cottrell (miscellaneous crew), Nebojsa Glogovac (actor), Sam Taylor (producer), Marina Lesic (miscellaneous crew), Tonko Lonza (actor), Boris T. Matic (producer), Natasa Janjic (actress), Srdan Golubovic (producer), Asja Jovanovic (actress), Marin Juranic (editor), Antonio Nuic (director), Antonio Nuic (producer),
Plot: It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn't speak at all to his father Pako, whom he blames for his mother's death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the years long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father.
Keywords: 1990s, animal-in-title, brother-brother-relationship, death-of-mother, donkey, drinovci-herzegovina, family-relationships, father-son-relationship, herzegovina, husband-wife-relationshipActors: Dusica Zegarac (actress), Stevo Zigon (actor), Bert Sotlar (actor), Marija Kohn (actress), Milan Strljic (actor), Lordan Zafranovic (writer), Zvonimir Rogoz (actor), Antun Nalis (actor), Karlo Bulic (actor), Tanja Boskovic (actress), Zvonko Lepetic (actor), Rade Markovic (actor), Boris Dvornik (actor), Lordan Zafranovic (director), Mirjana Ostojic (costume designer),
Plot: Three young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best friends in pre-WW2 Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Nazis and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of terror and gruesome massacres. The friends must now take different sides in a global conflict.
Keywords: 1940s, anvil, atrocity, brothel, bus, bus-massacre, communism, communist, controversy, croatiaActors: Zaim Muzaferija (actor), Peter Carsten (actor), Predrag Milinkovic (actor), Dragomir Felba (actor), Jovan-Burdus Janicijevic (actor), Rastislav Jovic (actor), Milos Kandic (actor), Boro Begovic (actor), Petar Kralj (actor), Danilo Lazovic (actor), Zvonko Lepetic (actor), Petar Lupa (actor), Veljko Mandic (actor), Predrag Manojlovic (actor), Lazar Ristovski (actor),
Genres: War,Actors: Zaim Muzaferija (actor), Peter Carsten (actor), Predrag Milinkovic (actor), Dragomir Felba (actor), Jovan-Burdus Janicijevic (actor), Rastislav Jovic (actor), Milos Kandic (actor), Boro Begovic (actor), Petar Kralj (actor), Danilo Lazovic (actor), Zvonko Lepetic (actor), Petar Lupa (actor), Veljko Mandic (actor), Predrag Manojlovic (actor), Lazar Ristovski (actor),
Genres: War,Actors: Stole Arandjelovic (actor), Boro Begovic (actor), Slobodan Dimitrijevic (actor), Veljko Mandic (actor), Zoran Hristic (composer), Zdravko Velimirovic (director), Iva Kosi (editor), Abdurrahman Shala (producer), Vojislav Micovic (actor), Milivoje Zivanovic (actor), Vesna Krajina (actress), Istref Begolli (actor), Joze Zupan (actor), Biljana Dragovic (costume designer), Branimir Scepanovic (writer),
Plot: Lado Tajovic, a student, is charged by the communist party to go to his home in the Montenegrin Mountains, to illegally spread the liberation movement's propaganda. Alone, surrounded by enemies, always awake and ready to evade traps and ambushes, Lado fights on the verge of sleep, against people which are cowards ready to betrayal. He fights his own temptations, hallucinations that constantly besiege him. Although he perseveres in holding to party directives: no killing and no revenge, Lado at one moment of weakness falls to a primal human act vengeance.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Stole Arandjelovic (actor), Severin Bijelic (actor), Zvonko Lepetic (actor), Milan Srdoc (actor), Mira Stupica (actress), Kleopatra Harisijades (editor), Dusan Radic (composer), Mirjana Vujisic (miscellaneous crew), Mate Relja (actor), Milo Djukanovic (director), Asja Kisic (actress), Dara Vukic (actress), Andro Marjanovic (actor), Slobodan Novak (writer), Berislav Mudnic (actor),
Plot: An ex-prostitute, now a washerwomen, asks for a pension for her previous "employment", which socialism, with its human principles, does not disapprove. To realize her right, she needs two witnesses, and she has many more. But none of them will testify. A whole society shows its selfishness, false morality, prejudice. She dies without realizing her great wish.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lida Branis (editor), Antun Nalis (actor), Demeter Bitenc (actor), Bozidar Smiljanic (actor), Mladen Serment (actor), Branko Bauer (writer), Branko Bauer (director), Ljubomir Didic (actor), Djokica Milakovic (actor), Viktor Bek (actor), Tihomir Polanec (actor), Dana Gospodnetic (miscellaneous crew), Nela Erzisnik (actress), Ivo Tijardovic (composer), Slobodan Novak (miscellaneous crew),
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