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Browse 20 movies from UP Film Circle
After a year of going to class online, Sheila moves into a dormitory despite residing a few kilometers away from the university.
Mar 2023
Abi wants to be something that others do not want her to be.
May 2017
Image production is fiction-weaving. Together with Sheena Absalud, we spent an entire day in Pride Month in my room documenting ourselves using different cameras: three mobile phones, one action camera, one CCTV camera, and one laptop, while asking each other questions about our asexuality. Recognizing the role of the moving image in constructing prejudice, self-identity, and desires, and therefore the expansion of neoliberalism, "The Function of Fiction" attempts to abandon temptations to define “asexuality” and its place in the context of “LGBTQIA+”, in pursuit of new socialities and possibilities. Music in the film was spawned with plants and machines.
Oct 2021
In the middle of a pandemic, four students try to get to their online class… Until one of them receives a very strange text message.
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A boy facing expulsion from the university tries to uncover the myth of the Sperm Bridge to make ends meet.
Apr 2020
A student dormer tries to find something to eat on a Sunday.
Feb 2018
Arthur, a young student, volunteers for the school newspaper. He describes his favorite part about being a newspaper boy.
Jun 2017
A distressed college student confronts his lover about the events that led to their separation.
May 2024
ACAB (All Cops Are Baduy-as-fuck)
Dec 2017
A student living alone starts noticing her things out of place.
Jun 2025
On the anniversary of her renowned musician sister's death, a young radio presenter revisits her unreleased demo tapes in the studio for a documentary and finds herself haunted by the guilt of her past sins. Based on 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Hulyo faces a few obstacles on the way to his 8AM exam.
When Maria sneaks out from her house in the mountains to spend a day with her friend, she is thrown into a world that makes her question her beliefs and experiences.
Mar 2025
In a desperate attempt to solve her problems, a girl seeks help from a known miracle worker.
Sep 2019
Ian struggles to fulfill a promise as he fights a battle against himself, within himself.
Feb 2020
A boy reminisces his life in Los Baños.
An unassuming Isko going to class is confronted with his pent-up frustrations and the external pressures that have been plaguing him during a string of strange encounters on the Never-Ending Bridge. Will he ever make it to the end?
Oct 2022
A tribute to the departed.
Mar 2018
Two roommates suffering from cabin fever descend into madness.
Oct 2016
Sid throws a party for strangers to celebrate the end of the world.
May 2018