UP Film Institute

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.

A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in the form of an unanswered phone call.

A university student learns that it is not so easy to borrow a library book. Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sari Estrada's segment in the anthology "Anatomiya ng Pag-Ibig."

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.

Kamil confronts her personal struggles when deciding to devote her life to serve the people in the countryside. Her sacrifice is remembered through an open letter filled with rage, grief, and revolutionary fervor.

“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.

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!

Ling is in her last year in elementary school. One school day, her botanist father fails to pick her up and doesn't return home from fieldwork. Fearing that her father has gone missing because there were not enough plants to see in their place, Ling begins planting in her own bedroom.

A portrait of a woman surfer

In a Catholic high school in Bulacan, a farm boy’s bond with a sacristan forces him to grapple with faith, shame, and the space between heaven and earth.

Reyna, head of the school choir and daughter of the Parish Office Chair is rattled once her meticulously orchestrated music group is disrupted by the spontaneous and unorthodox new pianist, Sam.

Confined and isolated within the four corners of her room, a woman’s confusion grows as her room becomes smaller, with marks appearing after every alarm she hears.

After losing her job at the end of a stressful finals week and having no choice but to move back home with her family, Nel wishes nothing but to be alone--and that's exactly what she gets. A story of loneliness and the realization that the human relationships you build with the people around you are what keep you afloat.

A film by Fea Fortuna

In a culture where designs are dreamt about and to be woven only by women, a T’boli man is challenged to face a cultural norm as the abaca goddess shows him a pattern to weave in his dreams.

Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib Apostol finds himself looking for his best friend Tric Torres back in high school. Guided by a map his best friend made for him, Tib attempts to visit each place around his hometown to retrace memories of his friendship with Tric.

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers.

An elderly man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged son, but a mysterious black figure gets in the way.

A young girl on the brink of puberty wakes up one morning to find that her pet dog had escaped, leaving her with a wound in her vagina.

On the eve of his departure, a father finds himself caught between the tender truth of who his son is and the harsh expectations of the macho world around him.