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Browse 15 movies from Wapak Studios
A grieving detective finds himself increasingly ensnared while investigating a case involving a sinister navigation app causing physical and psychological debris.
Sep 2026
While working at an elite country club outside Manila, a 17-year-old Ilocana worker uncovers the violent truths of her workplace, her country, and her own past after attempting to return a lost golf club to the club's president.
Aug 2026
A chubby grade school outcast must find a way to fit into his string bean costume in time for his school's Nutrition Month performance.
Between nuclear reactors and military curfews, 14-year-old Jani lives in a dystopian world oppressively devoid of empathy. Together, she and her slippery new friend Kiefer the talking catfish gear up to strike a surreal blow for freedom.
Nov 2023
Long removed from her music lessons when she was still young, Lisa Valenzuela, a single-minded pianist, grapples with a debt she knows she owes.
Nov 2024
A young man returns to his storm-ravaged hometown and confronts fragments of his younger self in the empty lot where his home once stood, forcing him to face what remains when nothing—and no one—is ever fully recovered.
A film by Gaby Marcial
Jun 2024
The story follows the lives of different people who occupy a single room in an apartment across various points in time. By overlapping these different timelines and generations of tenants within the exact same physical space, the film explores themes of impermanence, memory, and shared history.
Aug 2018
In a decaying cinema in the heart of Manila, Life discovers first love through films and their new friend’s father.
Aug 2025
Three land rights activists contend with their volatile notions of home amid terror and red-tagging in Cagayan Valley.
Oct 2025
Film students Queenie, Izzie, and Angie encounter a masked man named Masculado who threatens to distort every film there is into his vision of queer cinema—one that only features masc-for-masc BLs. Using their powers, the trio must stop Masculado before he distorts cinema for good!
May 2025
Two unacquainted daughters are forced to kill time together through demystifying pregnancy and watching an adult sitcom as they await their fathers’ return from a night of endless gambling.
Nov 2025
When Dino, an OFW returning home for good, appears only as a projection, he and his 21-year-old son Gino — seen as the child he once was — relive the ordinary moments migration denied them and finally confront their grief for the mother they lost.
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Luzonensis is a prehistoric hominid who is about to leave overseas to be a migrant worker. Hours before departing, he discovers that his passport is missing. Together with his father, they retrace their path to find it. Luzonensis ponders on who he is and his place in this country as their backs ache along the way.
Nov 2022
Gay teenager Girly looks for a job in a world he is unaware of.
Aug 2019