 This year's box office top grossers, Star Cinema's "Ang Tanging Ina N'yong Lahat" and the OctoArts Films-M-Zet Productions-APT Entertainment collaboration "Iskul Bukol 20 Years After" won Second and Third Festival's Best Picture awards respectively.All eight films included in the competition are being simultaneously shown from December 25, 2008.The awards night of 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival was held on December 27, 2008, at Harbor Garden Tent, Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Manila.