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The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them.
May 2019
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.
Jan 2025
Three strangers meet at a party one night and discover hidden desires, sins, and guilt when they realize that they are in the netherworld.
Mar 2022
Minjae is a Korean-Filipino teenager who is often discriminated against for being mixed-blood. His utmost desire to belong to the homogeneous and hierarchical Korean society is tested when his single Filipina mother decides to send him to the Philippines one winter day.
Aug 2016
An influencer tries to escape her failed nature vlogging adventure after her hiking trip gets disrupted by a witch scare.
Apr 2024
A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.
Aug 2014
While haunted by memories of a tragic event, a stubborn writer unwittingly unleashes a familiar presence that will stop at nothing to fulfill what it was summoned to do.
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A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of friends and admirers. Cris is also gay, and possesses a voracious sexual appetite, claiming to have had sex with over 4,000 men during his years of frequent cruising. But Cris has fallen for Eric, and has sworn off meaningless sex for the pleasures of monogamy. However, while Cris wants Eric and Eric alone, Eric himself isn't so sure he feels exactly the same way and is both puzzled and annoyed with Cris' rather ironic jealousy. The tensions between the two take a heavy toll on Cris, leading to a suicide attempt, and as his friends watch from a distance, any number of them speculate on what's going on between Cris and Eric.
Nov 2003
A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he still has the gift to make people laugh.
May 2015
During the course of one night, a young journalist is set to finish his investigative report that will expose the private army of an influential religious group. His work is interrupted by an e-mail from his source informing him about the recent conflicts inside the church, urging him to listen to three audio files containing confessions of members from the said religious group.
Jul 2017
A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.
Aug 2017
Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by a plausible saleslady in a very unusual IT retail shop.
Oct 2023
Two boys, Kulas and Gabo, enjoy playing games together until an impending demolition of their community threatens their relationship.
Jun 2024
Cedric goes to the wake of his deceased lover, James. While trying to gather the courage to tell James' mother, Carol, about their relationship, both Cedric and Carol journey through their memories with the departed. The film tackles grief and the many forms it takes.
Oct 2018
“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; something breaks into her window and wakes her up from her Hollywood dream.
Apr 2014
A local barbershop will be closing soon after serving for 28 years. Rey, the barber, has decided to open his shop for one last time. His last day will reveal his true purpose in life.
Sep 2024
In a mental rehabilitation center, a woman, newly turned sixty, with schizoaffective disorder, waits all year for her family to visit on her birthday. But as the day arrives, a typhoon threatens to derail her plans and her sense of reality.
May 2025
Annie must memorize a poem for school declamation and her grandmother, a former teacher, Nanay Bernadette helps her with her performance. But as Annie struggles to remember the poem, Nanay Bernadette's painful memories gradually resurface, causing the two to come to terms with their shared emotional burden.
Two strangers walking in a circular road find themselves in another place where they have to drift in the middle of who they are and who they want to be.
May 2016
25-year-old Frank lives in a shared space with a close friend. As they talk about difficulty in commuting and employment in the time of pandemic, and his friend’s sudden mention of biking, he now needs to face remembering an event that he long buried in his mind.
Jun 2023