Discoveries from Philippines World Cinema

Lamberto Avellana's adaptation of the Solomon and Sheba mythos.

Marge and James, a hardworking Filipino couple, are determined to build a stable future for their family. As their careers demand more of their time, they learn to value the small pockets of time they can Marge and James, a hardworking Filipino couple, are determined to build a stable future for their family. As their careers demand more of their time, they learn to value the small pockets of time they can carve out for what’s truly precious in their life.out for what’s truly precious in their life.

Kambal Tuko is undoubtedly one of Pugo and Togo's best vehicles with the comic tandem as the conjoined twins Momoy and Popoy.

A local albino is searching for his identity. Believing that he is the son of an American, he tries to learn English through reading translations and definitions from a Tagalog-English dictionary.

“Our Yesterdays” tells the story of three friends as they return to their old hangout space and reminisce about the days that built their bond through their high school life. They revisit their story and beginnings as young artists, and how one ultimately finds themselves immersed in the world of arts.

Nine-year old Jepoy saves coins from playing pogs for a simple picnic that he hopes can mend his broken family.

A heartwarming tale about two runaway 'tambays' who encounter an unexpected companion in Manny, a blind street urchin with dreams of becoming a photographer. The adventure begins when Joseph and Samuel accidentally leave their phone in Manny's area while fleeing from the 'Baranggay Tanods.' Upon their return, Manny refuses to give the phone back, leading the trio to join forces and navigate the challenges of their lives together.

Vilma Santos did Mga Rosas Sa Putikan for her own VS Films where she played a country girl forced into prostitution in the big city. The movie did fairly well at the tills. Good sign…” – Ricardo F. Lo, Expressweek, Jan 19 1978

Action star Roi Vinzon headlines this crime drama as a police captain who brings an aggressive approach in taking down felons responsible for a rampant drug traffic. But the situation becomes problematic when his own flesh and blood gets involved in the crime.

A man seeks justice for the death of his spouse's entire family when an armed group came.

On what seems to be an ordinary day, a woman comes home with baggage on hand. Inside contains several ingredients, which she, later on, used to cook food that is known to many. But while in the process, something had happened. An ordinary day was suddenly not ordinary at all. The baggage she brought home has been with her all along.

A troubled man and his three special friends struggle to traverse the thin line between absurdity and realism in a world of loneliness and depression.

A young gay man shares a bed with his bed in a hotel room with his best friend. Though he secretly pines for his roommate, he buries his feeling and suffers in silence as his best friend courts the affections of a woman who also lives in the hotel.

A story of a small seaside neigborhood seen in the eyes of youngsters Baning, her bestfriend Maymay and her brother Paeng. Bobo happens to be their drunkard neighbor’s pet dog.

Back once more in the province, Alex and her mother cook the very peculiar but comforting and warm Humba, fondly reminiscing about her grandmother.

Donnie and Kath, a couple who are on a trip to celebrate their second anniversary. However, it suddenly leads to their decision that this trip will be their last.

In the Phillipines, a wealthy Americanized young man becomes involved with a strong-willed, quiet farmhand that works for him.

A college outcast wakes up in an alternate reality where the campus crush is the outcast and he's the one who's popular, he must navigate twisted power dynamics and blurred truths to find his way back—only to discover that love, no matter how complicated, might be the key to it all.

Daughter of a nightclub singer, Vilma met Edgar whose father, like Vilma’s mother is also single parent. While dating, their parent also fell in love. Some twists of events happened, like the sudden break-up of their parent due to Edgar’s grandmother’s disapproval of her son’s relationship to Vi’s mother who is a night club singer, which was a societal taboo for the upper class during those days (the 60s-70s). Another twist was the kidnapping of Vilma. But all we’re ironed out in the end, just in time for the final musical production number, showing the whole gang dancing and singing to Vilma’s hit song, “Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Love You!”

Popular comic strip character comes to life.

A 1979 film by Maria Saret.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1985 directed by Pepe Marcos and starred Ramon Revilla, Jr., Lani Mercado, Lyka Ugarte, George Estregan, Raoul Aragonn, Perla Bautista, Rez Cortez, Conrad Poe, and Bomber Moran.

A person becomes divided between the memory of home and the reality they return to.

A Black Beret entry by Rad Pascual in partial fulfillment for their directing class under John Dalog Torres.

A mute teenage boy attempts to confess to the girl of his dreams on the last day of school.

A love story between two young men, separated after one of them contracted a highly stigmatized disease. Years later, the guy who abandoned his former lover due to that illness comes back in need of love and acceptance, which he failed to provide in their relationship before.

What does it really take to breastfeed and sustain life in the Philippines? In spite of the key legislations on the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in the Philippines, it has remained one of the top nations with the least number of exclusively breastfed children, and still has a stigmatised breastfeeding culture. "Hakab" explores the narratives of mothers in the Philippines coming from different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds braving the challenges of a repressed breastfeeding culture in the Philippines.

Romy and Peewee are teenage orphans in the Philippines with an unusual job; they loot the cemeteries and steal precious belongings left for the dead. The townspeople are fed up with their disrespect for the dead that a hefty reward awaits for their capture. Desperate to flee the town, the sail to a desolated island only to encounter a greater foe - THE UNDEAD, victims of contagious alien virus that were unleashed from an ancient meteorite discovered by the obsessed American Scientist named William Seabrook. Trapped on an island and left with nothing to defend themselves, the grave bandits must use their wits to battle the swarm of flesh eating ghouls!

In death, the ghost of a dutiful housewife learns to move on and discovers a new life in the afterlife.

Estranged Klaus is troubled by his personal and professional life. On their way to execute their next job, unbeknownst to his peers, he sets out to make it his last.

Filipino horror comedy movie from 1972.

This video focuses on Dumagat activists, Nanay Nene, Tatay Lope, and Chieftain Rodrigo and their continuous struggle to organize resistance against a Chinese-funded mega dam in Quezon. The Kaliwa Dam Project will displace numerous Dumagat and non-Dumagat families living near the dam site— yet another example of development aggression.

A story about a farmer who had his parents killed and also abused by the Japanese occupation forces escapes joins the guerrilla and became a leader of a group.

2026 Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival finalist

Therese is haunted by a man who has harassed her in the past as she tries to get ready for the day. As she continues to struggle, she realizes that she has power over the things in her own mind.

A college student studying literature returns to their abandoned family home, trying to find something that he has once lost. He goes back to reminisce about a part of his nostalgic past, answering questions that he has avoided his entire life. Although there is a question, he finds it difficult to answer – Who really am I?

In the aftermath of a nuclear war in 2040, the world is ruled and surveilled by Jotorrists, and children are forced to be slaves. Within this hopeless world, two orphans, Bumi, 12, and Ria, 16, find one another and become each other's hope and home.

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

A married couple living in a desolate place adjacent to the home of a woodland creature must deal with their toxic relationship.

Gin, Red Horse, Empi - the 3 basic needs of the Nomo Kween herself, Stella Salle. Redefining who is and should be a woman in this world full of - zzzzzz PARUSSAAAA!?!?!!

A short film and a documentary, it explores the stories of a handful of CCP's staff, some of whom have stayed for decades working as stagehands, flyers, and lighting crew. Working tirelessly throughout each production, they embody the persevering heart of the theatre, with some of them clocking into the CCP as early as four in the morning to complete a task or get a head start.

PHILIPPINE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA An Enchanting Evening In Balete Balete, Aklan December 2, 2019.

Eroticism and passion characterize the romance between a filipino and an american woman.

One fateful day Sabina was buying groceries at the marketplace when she noticed a burglar when she confronts her she was dumbfounded when the burglar looked like her.

Three land rights activists contend with their volatile notions of home amid terror and red-tagging in Cagayan Valley.

Paolo, Girlie and Johnny perform spirit of the glass in an abandoned house. When they contact the spirits; namely Isabel, Ibarra and Juanito, the spirits break free from the glass and possess the teens.

Angeli Salazar is on death row for murder. Twenty five years in prison and fearful of the reinstatement of the death penalty, she finds solace and freedom in the art of dance.

His family was his when they took it away--that's when his vendetta begins.

Walter Navarro as a business minded young lad swoons over Hilda Koronel in this light romantic comedy from J. C. Capistrano.