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Four science high school students struggle to complete their capstone project—all while dealing with an oppressive principal, academic pressure, personal conflicts, and questions about identity.
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
A gay student leader finds himself in the collective voices of an ensemble to avenge and reclaim the voice once taken from him.
Sep 2024
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.
Mar 2025
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.
Oct 2023
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.
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.
Oct 2010
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.
Jan 2024
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.
Nov 2021
After an earthquake hits her province, a distressed young bride wanders around the city to find a new home, and possibly, a new existence.
Mar 2023
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.
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.
After their high school friend's wake, two best friends decide to 'pagpag' as they reconnect after five years.
Jul 2025
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.
Dec 2023
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.
Feb 2025
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.
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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 grieving widow attempts to find the missing piece of her husband's remains.
Jan 2016
A thesis short film by Hannah Gagalac.
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