UP Cinema Arts Society

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

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

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.

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

A short thesis film by Karla Garcia.

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.

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.

Exploring the memories and experiences he had growing up, a son talks to his parents about how he felt mainly living with his mother while also visiting his father here and there who now had his own separate family.

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 Black Beret entry by Niño Batac 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.

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

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.

Stuck in Manila's lockdown, Stef Aranas ruminates about her lost thesis film and her identity as a transgender artist in the Philippines. The film tackles several conversations between Stef and the members of her film crew, also touching on the government's response to the COVID-19 crisis and the struggles of graduating in a tumultuous political and social climate.

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

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 thesis short film by Rad Pascual.

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