Discoveries from Philippines World Cinema

A neophyte filmmaker gets entangled with his subject's life story while assembling rejected videos from their interview.

In the battle of tyranny, a wounded man who is accompanied by a woman flees the bloodshed. They find themselves lost from the hostility of war, in the wilderness, and with themselves– until they meet someone they try to escape.

Enthusiastic student, Haidi, finds very silly ways of entering the school premises without being caught by a guard due to a lost I.D.

As a college student's nicotine addiction intensifies under the pressure of an imminent deadline, his struggle to stay focused pushes him to the brink of his sanity.

Des, a sixteen-year old, has experienced being fingered as early as the age of seven. At age fourteen, she was raped by the same uncle and was sold by her aunt to Foreigners. She was brought to PREDA for her to recover from the incidents that happened. As she evolves and heals from it, she builds up her life again by staying and graduating junior highschool. Her graduation also marks her release from this facility. This sets her into a new journey of adjustments and new beginnings as she starts her studies in senior high. As she opens up to a new beginning, her story complicates with the law cases filed against her uncle and aunt.These cases are ongoing and the trials are yet to be made. For a young child that only wants to move forward with her life she is faced with the fear of the past.

Brings you the warmth and bittersweet story of four siblings who tries to keep their family from growing apart.

Can a broken relationship be fixed with things we regard as broken?

In the year 4403, this is a story about a friendship between two guys that is being challenged by unrequited love. It follows Sinta, who struggles to confront Sayang about his one-sided affection for him, and Sayang, who notices hints of these feelings. Fearing rejection, Sinta musters up the courage to finally confess, before revealing it was only through “Pandama,” a highly immersive virtual reality. Sinta then goes back to the present, living a life full of regret from not knowing the possibilities had he confessed.

An influencer tries to escape her failed nature vlogging adventure after her hiking trip gets disrupted by a witch scare.

While the city is busy, Danilo who lives in the streets met a little girl that let him be reunited with his past and present realities.

As more and more elderly become sick in the pandemic as a result of the virus, they resort to prayer as a means of healing.

In the aftermath of Typhoon Odette, an elderly fishing couple grapples with the devastating impact on their lives and livelihood. Once abundant harvests are now reduced to meager catches, their poignant journey unfolds against the backdrop of a changing ocean.

While the Philippine government strives to ensure access to electricity nationwide, a far-flung community in the Northern Cordillera region has enjoyed clean and sustainable energy for over 20 years thanks to community effort and collaboration.

After winning a Regional Swimming Competition, proud and skilled swimmer Mari faces unexpected online criticism about her dark skin, forcing her to confront societal beauty standards and find the strength to embrace her true identity as she navigates the intersection of passion, prejudice, and self-discovery.

A gaybar proprietor in Baguio City has recovered from COVID-19. But with the strict lockdown closing all City borders, and throwing all entertainment and tourism businesses to a permanent close, he is now confronted by an asphyxiating amount of unpaid rent, hospital bills, and a life threatening depression, originating from old family trauma and midlife crisis.

A ten-year-old girl named Angeli has a stern, cold and seemingly unfeeling mother, Maria. To prevent her daughter from entering a forbidden room, Maria tells her daughter that a child-eating monster resides in there. Fully believing what her mother has told her, Angeli refuses to go inside the room until a prank leads her to believe that the monster keeps her friend. Going inside the room, Angeli discovers her mother’s secret.

Gabon, taken from an old Maranao folk lullaby which means “cloud,” tells the story of how far a young Maranao girl takes to heart the promise to her parents that she will finish a school exam. Shot in one day in Marawi, Lanao del Sur, just before the Ramadan, Gabon features an ensemble cast of grades 2-4 students from the MSU Integrated Laboratory School and the alumni of Sining Kambayoka

The story of Bertoldo ug Balodoy is about the romance and hilarious adventures of love-sick Filipino Siamese twins, Bertoldo (played by Ben Abeda) and Balodoy (Piux Kabahar) who do a lot of tricks at the expense of Cupid and put an end to their adventures and misadventures by marrying two pretty sister-heiresses, Bining and Daringding. This is the first Cebuano full-length film, and is unfortunately lost.

Arena is a story about Bochog who competes for a famous, neighborhood thumb wrestling tournament against Paeng whom he can't defeat. But he continues to practice so that he can reach success and seize his throne with the help of his coach, Mik-Mik.

The “Friendly Letter” is what you get when you don’t care enough to send the very best.

THE BIGGEST SWASHBUCKLING ACTION COMEDY OF THE YEAR. - THIS ACTION-COMEDY MOVIE HAS THE PROVINCIANO TULUME PLAYING AN UNLIKELY ZORRO.

Joaquin longs for his crush to appear on his dream. In a span of four days he dreamed bizzare and unusual events he didn't expected.

In the middle of the long road of EDSA, a pair of siblings venture into poverty, hunger and the crooked system that binds their fate.

After two years of online classes, Liv finally meets her virtual crush Mellie and strikes up a romance with each other.

Two drunken friends ponder on traveling back to the past when an unexpected traveler suddenly ask them for help.

Two trans best friends tear through their town in search of the person who stole half of the cash prize they won in a miss gay competition.

A day in the life of Berting is portrayed in a small fishing town. Berting works for a firm that trades fish. Even if he doesn't have much money, he still shares, even if it means going without something. With regard to Berting's prior circumstance, Habwa centers on the idea of generosity and positive values even in misfortunes.

Misdirected

A young logger sets out with his co-worker to chop down trees in a nearby forest. As they start cutting down the trees, he notices a strange entity that lurks within it.

Human hands can be both destructive and healing, Jeffrie Po suggests in his experimental film with spiritual outreach. He portrays a human being as a faun who roams the jungle dauntlessly, yet is destructive. The forest with vanishing cattle becomes a battlefield between dark powers and the power of salvation.

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In the midst of a studio fire in 1921, Joaquin attempts to save the film reel of the first movie he's ever seen.

A young photographer questioning his existence in life. As he destroys his means of livelihood he goes on a journey to fix his camera and to find what he really wants.

Kahit hindi turuan ang puso: Directed by Frank Rivera. With Tonton Gutierrez, Roy Alvarez, Sylvia Sanchez, Maria Sovietskaya.

Impen is always told to avoid fighting against other children who teases him of his skin color. When Ogor bullies him, he reaches his breaking point and finally stands up for himself and gains the town's respect.

Originally a three-part experimental film, respectively titled SPIT, WORDS AND OUTAKES..., and OPTIK, combining animation, illustration, found footage and liquid mercury.

Mike de Leon's short film from 1975, partially lost.

Comedy Of Don Galo Sto. Nino De Coastal, Don Galo, Paranaque City March 29, 2018.

A story that tells about the artist's personal journey of how he walks on the "black and white" road for him to escape reality just to find his 'perfect place'. Through a creative visual representation inspired by his artworks, it is parallel to the real events and situations of his life that shows how he fell out of love with himself which causes him to have suicidal thoughts and to do these self-harm actions. A perfect place can be anything, it could be someone or something that makes a person feel happy. But in this animation, for the artist to find his perfect place by hurting himself which also becomes his addiction until it gets worse until he ended up stuck in his desired place.

A day in the life of two out-of-school 7-year-old kids. They spend most of their time playing outside or being at home watching TV with their absent mothers.

Blonde: Directed by Dante Pangilinan. With Ilonah Jean, Johnny Vicar, Gino Antonio, Shirley Tesoro.

THE Philippines' very own Kathleen Paton was crowned Miss Eco International 2022 during the coronation night held in Cairo.

BLACK MAGIC 2019 Star Magic Halloween Ball October 20, 2019

Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines

A lack of socialization gives 14-year old Tim an immense desire to meet a friend that he could regularly talk to.

As the town gets enveloped with calamities and recessions, a pottery artist goes missing. This pursuit will unveil the resiliency and authenticity of the heritage town of San Nicolas.

Mon grows up with his uncle and learns martial arts after his father dies. He then uses his talents to fight crime and defeat criminals.

Diego, a prisoner, is visited nightly by a specter claiming to be the keeper of a hidden treasure. He confides his nightmares to a fellow inmate, Tiago. But the untrustworthy Tiago tells the Kapitan who decides he wants the treasure for himself.

Drei finds himself wandering into uncharted territory, he discovers a pansitan that does not take money as payment, but rather as a secret will suffice. He then gets greeted by a peculiar child and a seemingly kind and old stranger. Worried he might lack the cash to pay for the pansit, the old stranger explains that they do not take money as payment instead a secret is enough. The deeper the secret, the tastier the pansit gets. Enticed by the meal, Drei promised to come back.

A depiction of the Philippines’ political environment embodied in a classroom election. It follows the students of Grade 10 - Maharlika who were tasked to appoint a new class president for the school year. However, the majority of them failed to recall how important it is for everyone to take the election and voting process in a serious manner which led them to face certain consequences in the end.

Toto learns of a terrible accident in his village. With the goal of going there to witness for himself, he meets Luz, a lady with whom he was able to exchange wisdom while they traveled to the incident site.

Tsitra is a painter who lives alone. One day, an unexpected knock emanates from the back door of her house. As she answers it, increasingly terrifying revelations begin to unravel about the true nature of her situation.

A business in the middle of bankruptcy struggles with the upkeep of its day-to-day low mortality life. As the owners devise a plan to drive up revenue, and with more "meat" coming in... they realize that nothing is what it seems.

The struggles of Vic and his sister Timay, who share the same cellphone to continue remote classes.

With the struggles they encountered in the past, Maria and Ton-Ton put their generous hearts on the line for each other—for their passion for work, and the love that they cannot ignore.

In a silent world with an empty stomach; Ton-ton is walking around the streets of Imus in search of food, along the way he’ll meet different people.

A statue remains unmoved as they forcefully paint different colors on it.