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

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.

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.

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.

A workaholic call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The pair becomes stuck in a limbo as they accidentally stop time at the same moment, leading them to confront the frozen world together.

To cope with his mother’s death, Anton, a graduating college student, adopts a pet fish - only to slowly discover how his grief and loneliness causes his emotions to grow more intense as strange fishlike traits appear around his body.

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.

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 thesis short film by Hannah Gagalac.

Five years after their late brother's death, three siblings reunite in their hometown to celebrate her birthday with their 7-year-old niece who no longer remembers her existence.

Two mothers strive to live a life of hope and strength while carrying the unbelievable pain of losing their husband and child to Rodrigo Duterte’s vicious war on drugs.

Flor, a drag queen, is forced to walk home after a cancelled gig. Along the way, intense heat and sporadic rain test their health and resilience.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A graduating college student and her ill grandmother explore the nuances of their so-so relationship when grandmother suddenly requests help to acquire a vintage sewing machine. As they accumulate funds, the two realize their occasional bond through a challenging journey alongside grandmother's declining health.

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.

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.