Here's a step-by-step guide on how to watch this year's MMFF online

Despite the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, this year's Metro Manila Film Festival will still push through with 10 films participating.

The first-ever Metro Manila Summer Film Festival was supposed to be held in April this year but was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fortunately, four of the entries of the Summer Metro Manila Film Festival, The Missing, Isa Pang Bahaghari, Coming Home, and Tagpuan were moved to the annual Metro Manila Film Festival in December.

Wrapping up the list of this year's participating titles are Suarez: The Healing Priest, Pakboys Takusa, Magikland, Fan Girl, Mang Kepweng, and The Boy Foretold by the Stars.

Get the details about the 10 competing films in this year's Metro Manila Film Festival here:

MMFF goes online

Although cinemas have already started showing international films with drive-in theaters and floating cinemas, the Metro Manila Development Authority, the organizer of the annual film festival, decided to make the film more accessible to the public through Upstream.ph, an online video-on-demand website.

Filipinos both here and abroad can now buy tickets for the festival which will run from December 25 to January 6.

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to buy tickets and watch the 10 participating films:

1. Go to UPSTREAM.ph/mmff to see all the available films. Click 'reserve now' under your chosen film. (Pumunta sa UPSTREAM.ph/mmff para makita ang mga available na pelikula. I-click ang 'reserve now' sa ilalim ng napiling pelikula.)

2. Click 'pay' to get your ticket through GMovies.ph, our partner ticketing site. If you have a voucher, input your voucher code on 'enter promo/claim code' then click 'apply.' (I-click ang 'pay' para makuha ang iyong ticket sa GMovies.ph, ang partner ticketing site ng UPSTREAM.ph. Kung meron kayong voucher, i-input ang inyong voucher code sa 'enter promo/claim code' at i-click ang apply.)

3. If you don't have a GMovies account yet, click 'create an account.' It's FREE! (I-click ang 'create an account' kung ka pang account sa GMovies. It's FREE!)

4. You will be able to watch your chosen film starting December 25, 2020 on the "My Shows" tab of your GMovies account! (Pagsapit ng December 25, 2020, mapapanood n'yo na ang napiling pelikula sa "My Shows" ng inyong GMovies account.)

Here's how to watch this year's 10 participating films at the Metro Manila Film Festival.

Several Kapuso talents also star in different MMFF films this year. Get to know to more them here: