Ang pagsapit ng kamuwangan sa pelikula: Isang panimulang pagsipat sa naratibo ng piling coming-of-age films ng Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival

This preliminary study aims to make a modest contribution to the literature on coming-of-age cinema in the Philippines. Using coming-of-age cinema concepts from Alistair Fox (2017) woven into the Three Dimensions of Film Narrative of David Bordwell (2007), this paper is a preliminary narrative analysis of selected contemporary coming-of-age films from the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. This study aims to offer insights about the characteristics of a Filipino coming-of-age film.