Jun Robles Lana, director of the 2025 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) entry “Call Me Mother,” lamented how the expensive movie tickets made the public turn away from watching movies, noting how a family of four needs “at least ₱1,500” to enter the cinema. Noting that the MMFF is supposed to be a “people’s festival,” Lana said in a Facebook post on Thursday, Jan. 1, that expensive movie tickets unknowingly have shifted the experience of going to the cinemas from a “shared national culture to a middle-class privilege.” “For decades, the MMFF was the ‘people’s festival.’ It was the one […]... Keep on reading: Filmmaker Jun Lana blames expensive cinema tickets for lack of MMFF support