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A compilation of footage of typhoons hitting the province of Cagayan. A personal letter to a loved one who left a long time ago. A film about rain, winds, floods, darkness, silence, and grief.
Concerned residents of a coastal Batangas town share their personal accounts detailing the ongoing development aggression in their barangay and their efforts to protect the vulnerable mangrove ecosystem.
After being involved in a bullying incident, a young boy takes a journey to seek his father’s grave with the help of a peculiar horned fish.
In this courtroom drama, Mother Earth is sent to trial for the destruction she has brought upon humanity. The audience is faced with a moral dilemma of whether Earth should be held responsible for the loss of lives and habitat from extreme typhoons. Witnesses and experts are brought to the stand to disprove misconceptions about climate change.
A gullible young boy, as all kids are, believes that following his frowny-faced mother's order to buy a bottle of soy sauce and a bottle of vinegar will make his mother happy.
Ira: Directed by Jett C. Espiritu. With Ilonah Marquez, Derek Dee, Raffy Anido, Jun Arenas.
Blondie 2 · Director. Angelito J. De Guzman · Stars · Ilonah Marquez · Sabrina M. Rey 'PJ' Abellana.
An intertwined story of three human trafficking victims who lived and sodomised in destructive and inhumanely violent world of human trafficking
Ron and Jim used to be dance partners. Both have chosen different paths. Confronted by realities of the pandemic and mental health issues both are driven to confront their lives and if they will ever get to dance again. Together.
The neglected wife of a homosexual finds finds sexual fulfillment with a former boyfriend and student.
When his parents and peers reject and abuse his queer, older brother because of a leaked video on the Internet, a young man creates for him a colorful legend of love and acceptance.
Laura, a transgender woman, is a reformed sex worker living a quiet life in the country. But she can't seem to shake off the lure of the big city. A consummate actress, she manages leads a double life but as her lies begin to unravel, will she be able to keep her two worlds separate?
Kaputli (Purity) is a story about a teenager who was blinded by love and all its pleasures. A drastic choice that hurled her future ahead and turned her life up side down.
"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law era. These people, whose names allude to familiar characters from Jose Rizal's novels, narrate their private yet vivid stories of loss, longing, and Third World despair, all intersecting in a public arena that is their packed community. Theirs are lives seen with an oftentimes comic eye, unabashedly bound by a wild and brimming sense of Filipino hope.
A tribute to the people that we fear to lose, and for the ones that we have lost. It is a story about the fear that we have to face as the new normal.
Filming in a Time of Uncertainty is a short documentary film that follows a small team of filmmakers, who are based in the region in Mindanao, as they struggle to shoot a film amidst the trying times of the pandemic. And how they were able to comply with the community's minimum health guidelines, while observing the basic health care, in spite of the intricacies of the film industry’s standard health protocols.
A subdued worker serves a swollen man bound in an endless cycle of simultaneous consumption and defecation. A series of unprecedented events follow after the worker is forcibly laid off.
A man finds answers and more questions as he looks beyond the water's surface.
Tupada '92 is a coverage of the 1992 Philippine national elections that juxtaposes the hysteria of the campaign season with the precarious state of 31 million Filipino voters. Unsure of what the future holds, the documentary inserts a seer’s ominous visions, including the return to power of the Marcoses.
In Alunsina, Dalena explores the potentials and limits of engagement within a community facing trauma. Working closely with human rights organizations, she finds herself documenting the struggles of children and families in an urban settlement severely affected by the government's war on drugs. She engages with another family whose child has resorted to drawing pictures to cope with such tragedy and again confront the complexities in communicating the violence they have witnessed.
Walking in the busy streets of Manila, Atiya a 17-year-old girl, battles her conscience as she paces towards the house where she plans to give-up the unborn child. However, various scenarios came rushing, clouding her mind with uncertainties.
A resolute man unapologetically abandons his first-born, believing that it was the right thing to do. Many years later, an inquisitive documentary filmmaker interrogates him.
Jigs and Sherman are terribly in love with each other. They share a home together, and live the life of a committed couple. But Jigs has fantasies of introducing a third party to their blissful little arrangement. And when their teenage neighbor Kiko shows interest, Jigs tests the waters. The couple eventually succumbs to temptation, and a rift grows between Jigs and Sherman. Jealousy threatens to tear the two apart as they tangle with the affections of their new teenage lover.
Two legendary characters come face to face in the clash of the decade - but only ONE must win.
After the Tubong, a welcome ceremony performed in Marinduque, 10-year-old Pablo tries to pursue his long-time crush whom he hasn't seen in a long time.
A simple story of a farmer & his son. It is dry season but they need to plant in order to survive. However, their positive outlook help them to think of other solution.
A story of a woman miner from the mountains of Benguet, who struggles to balance life as a miner and a single parent. “Butas” takes you to a journey in the life of a mother who struggles to make ends meet but is hopeful to provide a better life for her son. Due to poverty, she is forced to work in a foreign country but comes back to the Philippines after her husband dies from a mining accident.
This film tells the story of a group of children whose lives are inexorably bound up with Sampaguita the national flower of Philippines and the myths that surround it. Sampaguita blossoms are much sought-after but, since they wilt quickly, they must be sold within twenty-four hours. All the children in this film are are all sampaguita pickers or sellers.
A map of the experiences of children living in “informal” settlements inside the UP Diliman campus shows the possibility of a shared space, different from how students, professors and employees have come to know the university.
Mythological love story by Filipino multi-talent Khavn De La Cruz. Kommander Kulas has a restless night, in which he dreams that he is a giant cockroach. Upon waking, Kulas finds a number of stitches in his chest: his heart seems to have been stolen. With his destitute friend Carabao, Kulas sets off on an adventure that leads the two wandering souls all over the country in search of Kulas’ heart. On the way, they meet various mythological characters. As ever, De La Cruz - who has now made more than seventy short films and some thirty features - shot this film on video, but deviates from his typical experimental style, completely unaffected by film conventions. Kommander Kulas is more controlled than De La Cruz' previous films. Nevertheless, the absurdism the maker himself compares to the films of Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky is still present. The principal role is played by an itinerant piano.
“Bingat” documents the archeological diggings in a remote barrio. It unearths the individual and collective recollections of archeologists and the local residents of Cabanatuan, Quezon. Its intertwining tales become a tapestry of relentless socio-cultural and historical amnesia.
a 30-minute short film about meeting someone new and falling in love. Deeply depressed and heartbroken, Marvin is forced by his brother to use a love potion so that his aching heart would be cured. While dining at a dumpling stall, 'Siomai Sa Tisa' (Siomai Of Tisa), he meets a pretty nursing student. After having a short conversation, he feels mysteriously drawn to her so he tries to use the love potion to win her heart. Will the love potion work, or will their love take its course even without it?
Drama about a deaf father
While walking the halls of her campus at twilight, a student is handed over a haunting note that begins a series of terrifying occurrences.
A man is imprisoned in a movie theater for killing Jose Rizal. He attempts to escape.
After misspelling 'collage' as 'college', a young boy inquires about what college is in his local neighborhood where nobody has ever attended university.
Just as she was about to give up on her pursuit of companionship, traumatized, nine-year-old Sol meets and befriends a forest spirit on her tenth birthday, making way for an exploration of healing, identity, and desire in the remaining days before she enters a new school.
The night after receiving their passports, the Arcanghel siblings discover their eldest sister, Abbie, is in bad shape due to an ailment she's been keeping to herself. It causes a rift amongst the three, who have conflicting plans and purposes. Through a familial token during sickness, the siblings make a decision to stay home in the country together for the better.
Two women face domestic violence. They make difficult decisions so they can live a better life for themselves through each other's support.
Biopic of notorious criminal and self styled folk hero Leonardo Manicio, better known as Nardong Putik, who credited his magical amulet for giving hime special powers.
In Manila's tenements, young displaced Muslim Al-owlah grapples with solitude amidst the bustling city, yearning for friendship and a sense of belonging.
Luke and his bestfriend search for his father to accompany them on their circumcision day.
A phone sees a glimpse of the lives of different people from different walks of life as it gets passed by mere chance from one hand to another.
Gary Valenciano brings his real-life stardom to the screen where he plays a rock-star. He has a daughter whom his managers keep as a secret from his fans for fear they will abandon him just when things are going well in his career.
Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1979 directed by Pablo Santiago and starred Nora Aunor, Christopher de Leon, Alma Moreno, Rudy Fernandez, Rebecca Gonzales, Lito Anzures, Jose Garcia, Matimtiman Cruz, and German Moreno.
In a rigidly controlled town, where conformity is enforced, one of the miner’s lives is transformed when he stumbles upon a hidden neighboring town, but his newfound freedom is short-lived when he is caught by their strict leader, who’ll stop at nothing to stop change from coming to his town.
In a 24-hour salon, two vampire women with history look back on their centuries-old memories, before one of them gets married to a mortal man.
A retired fisherman and his grandson return to their old sinking hometown.
George (Jacky Woo) is an excellent pool player and has in fact, established a reputation in the field of billiards. Later, he decided to take advantage of his talent and used the sports as a source of living.
Carmen Concha’s final film.
Set in a dystopian landscape, humanity's strife for survival causes mankind to reminisce past memories. One man in particular decides to remember a special woman from his past.
A mockumentary about the making of the first Filipino feature film. It's 1919, and inventor Jose Nepomuceno attempts to become the first Filipino filmmaker. He leads a motley crew of filmmakers as they figure out the perils and joys of making movies. Chaos ensues.
When Jaylou, a mechanic, discovers the code of conventional courtship, he decides to use that discovery to carve his name in history. What could possibly go wrong?