Terminal Six Post

Between nuclear reactors and military curfews, 14-year-old Jani lives in a dystopian world oppressively devoid of empathy. Together, she and her slippery new friend Kiefer the talking catfish gear up to strike a surreal blow for freedom.

The night before local elections, a single mother takes her son to a final campaign rally to get his lost scholarship back — unaware that in the midst of the dense crowd, a morbid disaster awaits them.

The quiet life of the dreamer Ka Benjie was shattered when he heard of the enrollment in the other village.

Emman, a visual artist, becomes drawn to his neighbor, Althea — a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. As he and his fiancée, Liz, try to help Althea, Emman’s growing desire for her pulls him into a nightmare of betrayal and darkness.

Five years after the death of his grandmother, Joaquin returns to their old, abandoned, soon to be torn down house, but gets stuck when an inherited item disappears.

Aya, living in the slums of Manila, dreams of becoming a billiards World Champion, but after her father is killed, she’s manipulated by Itoy into playing underground gambling matches in back-alley pool halls.

A driver is sent on a simple errand: to pick up a designer t-shirt and a tin of viagra for his boss, who is shacked up in a hotel with his lover. Simple as it sounds, the road trip crisscrosses the chasms of time, class, and character.

In the summer of 2001, 16-year-old Andoy searches for his long-lost father in the most unlikely of things — VHS tapes. His reality becomes mystified when two movie-like characters appear in their small hometown.

When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.

Luzonensis is a prehistoric hominid who is about to leave overseas to be a migrant worker. Hours before departing, he discovers that his passport is missing. Together with his father, they retrace their path to find it. Luzonensis ponders on who he is and his place in this country as their backs ache along the way.

A pregnant woman, suspicious of her husband’s romantic relationship with his carabao, schemes to banish her beastly rival and reclaim her title as the fairest creature of the land.

Cinemalaya's first documentary in the full-length competition follows three women named Maria on a journey to seek truth and fight for justice as the Philippines becomes a shrinking civic and democratic space that fosters a culture of impunity.

As the city of Zamboanga celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, a couple tries to survive to survive the drought that has been wrecking havoc on their flower farm and raise enough money for the wife's imminent childbirth. Meanwhile, a tragedy – which will be later be known as the 2013 Zamboanga Siege – is about to strike.