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Thirty years after the massacre of Doce de Pebrero in 1945, an aging survivor struggles to maintain his quiet life as he is haunted by the shadows of his past-memories of violence and fear that refuse to fade, forcing him to confront the lasting scars of his trauma.

A film producer must convince his misogynistic long-time colleague, the film director, to opt for the feminist costume for the superhero film they are developing.

After their high school friend's wake, two best friends decide to 'pagpag' as they reconnect after five years.

A newly-turned sixty-year-old woman who just obtained her senior citizen card reunites with a long-lost high school friend, sparking a journey of nostalgia, self-discovery, and rekindling romance.

A man struggles to recollect the memories that he shared with his estranged father as he travels back to see him for the last time. In his journey, he confronts a fragmented yet important past that makes him question if he can trust his own memories.

Badong, ever since childhood, wants to become an action hero. However, people perceive him as the opposite, solely because of his appearance. This has become a constant source of disappointment for Badong. As a result, he has lost all ambitions for the future. Things start to change however, when he unwittingly becomes a part of a gang of kidnappers.

After an earthquake hits her province, a distressed young bride wanders around the city to find a new home, and possibly, a new existence.

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.

In a 24-hour salon, two vampire women with history look back on their centuries-old memories, before one of them gets married to a mortal man.

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.

A few days before his sacred transformation, Pablo, a neophyte Tikbalang, hasn't fully accepted his fate, alongside a crisis in his own identity; until one magical night changes his perspective on his world and the self.

Fifty years into a Philippines riddled with rising prices and scarcity in local produce, a person travels to the wet market to look for ingredients. These ingredients transpose to random household objects while cooking until the person serves a dish scrambled with the most bizarre objects you could think of.

Decaying handwritten letters, photos, objects and spaces— of all the traces that were left, rekindling and remembering mundane things after a death of a loved one, just to make us feel that they are still in this realm. To all the people who were left behind and to the butterflies of who passed away.

After years in the United States, Miguel returns to the Philippines as a young man. Revisiting his hometown in Pampanga, he is flooded with memories of dreams and cherished moments shared with his childhood friend Simon. Carrying a souvenir from America, Miguel discovers that Simon is no longer there to meet him.

A year has already passed since the pandemic started but we still find ourselves waiting for something as time continuously ticks and as our hearts still beat. A reflection of loss and hope in the midst of uncertainties and fears in a time where it felt like the world stopped from its motion, but we did not.

A middle aged couple—Leila, a human resourcer officer, and Felix, a ride hailing app driver—will find their seemingly lifeless routine shaken when Leila sleepwalks one night and asks Felix, “Who are you?” Against their fast-paced urban life, the sleepwalking incidents will spark the question of their existence and togetherness, and finally, wake them up to life.

An amateur film set descends into chaos when a lovers’ quarrel involving a crew member threatens their production.

Five years of silence end when former high school best friends, Ethan and Gio, both cramming for finals, unexpectedly reunite at a cafe. With the cafe closing early, they must go somewhere else, confronting the unresolved pain of their fractured past.

While on an out-of-town birthday party, Bianca, an only child to a single father, receives a phone call about her father’s sudden passing. She spends the next 12 hours arranging the logistics of his funeral while tackling the feeling of an unexpected profound loss.

At the height of their relationship, two great friends since junior high school realize a significant life change may come sooner than later.