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Two boys, Kulas and Gabo, enjoy playing games together until an impending demolition of their community threatens their relationship.
Jun 2024
About the characters meeting on an ordinary day. Alfonso, a gunman from the Other Side goes to town in search of the Captain for a payment that is owed to him. He arrived at the house seeing Liwliw, the Captain's daughter practicing her dance. Complications arise when Delfin, a passionate poet, serenades the young lady.
Aug 2016
The wife of a middle-aged stone miner bears child while he is in a relationship with an enchanted black figure. A fettered commitment to an unborn child he already loves and a wife he despises torments the man. The enchanted lover offers him uncertain seduction. And he must choose, just as every dark creature must only pick between painful fates.
Feb 2014
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
An elderly man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged son, but a mysterious black figure gets in the way.
Aug 2019
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.
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
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 film by Jill Go-Soco
Gay teenager Girly looks for a job in a world he is unaware of.
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."
Aug 2015
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
Ara, an incoming college student, gets ready to move out by packing her things. She discovers a stack of diaries and starts journeying through the memories of her childhood.
Mar 2023
It’s the last day of high school. Three misfits: Mike, Jeremy, and Marie are tasked to edit the graduation video. As they review the footage, their batchmate’s video contains a confession that their principal harassed her. The group has to decide whether or not to expose the issue as each deals with their own secrets.
A film by Fea Fortuna
Ren, a gay college student, half-halfheartedly lets go of his activist suitor Lenny, believing that his rebel partner is still alive despite rumors that their group has been ambushed.
May 2018
When a rural village in the Philippines starts to vanish, leaving only carabaos as witnesses, a child plans out a journey to locate his lost father, revealing a secret that defies belief.
Aug 2024
A delayed UP student faces obstacles when enlisting in her final PE class because she is a dinosaur!
May 2025
A 68-year-old matandang dalaga suddenly goes through pregnancy when her 19-year-old niece visits her home. As they spend time together, the two women are forced to deal with the cards life has handed them.
Jun 2023
An 11-year old vendor of pirated copies of films in a downtown capital tries every possible way in his position to watch a film for the very first time inside the comfort of a cinema.