The Philippines expanded its profile at this year´s Berlinale with the German premiere of the documentary film “Motherland” (Bayang Ina Mo) and the participation by six young filmmakers in the Berlinale Talent Campus. “Motherland” by Filipino American filmmaker Ramona Diaz premiered at this year´s Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) with a full house screening at the Cinestar Cinema in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin on 12 February 2017.  It was followed by a Q&A with Ms. Diaz and her ... Read more

Philippine Photographer Jake Verzosa called on Ambassador Melita Sta. Maria-Thomeczek on 23 January 2017 and presented the Embassy with a copy of his book “The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga.”  The book was recently chosen as one of the recipients of the “Steidl Book Award Asia” by renowned German designer, curator and publisher Gerhard Steidl alongside other books by photographers from India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and China. Winners traveled to Göttingen, Germany in January 2017 to work ... Read more