UP Cinema Arts Society

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.

Reyna, head of the school choir and daughter of the Parish Office Chair is rattled once her meticulously orchestrated music group is disrupted by the spontaneous and unorthodox new pianist, Sam.

A delayed UP student faces obstacles when enlisting in her final PE class because she is a dinosaur!

The daughter of an overseas Filipino worker is being haunted by a crow-like humanoid creature, the manifestation of her guilt and burden of life. While trying to run away from it, she eventually learns that the only way to stop the haunting is to embrace and accept the creature.

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.

A gay drug-dealing couple celebrates their anniversary amidst the country's war on drugs.

An artist is struck with a mysterious condition that fills up her lungs with water. As she is called to her imminent death, her sister serves as her salvation.

A Black Beret entry by Niño Batac in partial fulfillment for their directing class under John Dalog Torres.

A Black Beret 2023 entry by Bane Vicente in partial fulfillment for their directing class under John Dalog Torres.

An experimental film on food, cycles, and life processes.

Tonio’s favorite cat, Celso, disappears days before his graduation.

Ikalimampung Palapag is an experimental short film delving into the various interpretations of the five stages of mental health recovery.

With the rise of a shopping mall inside a state university, Arnil, a local printing shop worker, expresses his plights as his established livelihood faces the threat of closure.

A burnt-out animator returns home to care for his ailing grandmother, only to be drawn into a mythical world, where he must confront his guilt and rediscover his purpose, preserving fading legends through his art.

A UP Cinema Arts Society portrait film in celebration of Pride Month 2023.

Amidst a city-wide brownout, Sunlight experiences the balmiest Christmas of her young life.

A thesis film by Katyana Floresca

A Black Beret entry by Katyana Floresca in partial fulfillment for their directing class under John Dalog Torres.

As her long-awaited wedding day finally unfolds, Eba’s recounting of memories with her childhood sweetheart takes her onto a journey of nostalgia… and deception.