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A woman who cannot remember begins to see ghosts of the past.
Sep 2014
Twinkle is a single queer mother whose dream of officially adopting her son gets shaken when the boy's biological mother, Mara, unexpectedly reappears.
Dec 2025
A prankster finds himself trapped in a dark room. Things turn bloody when a masked figure gives him instructions to use a torture wall or else his loved ones will suffer.
Nov 2022
It's the story of a woman and her dog on a journey to Baguio to somewhat cure her ailing mother who was once saved by her dog. Somewhere along the journey, she will discover a different kind of love.
Oct 2019
Liza is still drowning in grief from losing the love of her life when she receives a visit from the most unlikely person — her husband, who she left five years ago. With no questions asked and no conditions made, Anton invites her back to his and their two children’s lives.
Aug 2018
A pair of best friends head out to quench their romantic thirsts while on vacation, but end up targeting the same man!
Jun 2022
Two childhood friends who promised to love each other through thick and thin, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer. Something happens to my character Tonton he dies and resurrects just to fulfill the promise he made to Gwen.
Jul 2016
In 1928 Philippines, under the shadow of American colonialism, Pepito dreams of a life beyond his village, while his father pressures him to inherit the ancient role of circumciser. Amidst forbidden friendships and unrequited loves, Pepito’s journey takes an unexpected turn, challenging the very heart of tradition and identity.
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The story of gamers turned lovers Cairo and Gavreel, to spend time together in Gavreel's house, a few weeks before Cairo returns to his province. What starts out as a romantic holiday for the young couple turns into a relationship test that they have to overcome. Cairo is faced with the reality of his imminent departure while Gavreel is compelled to make a life-changing decision. After defying distance and even the pandemic, will Cairo and Gavreel be able to prove once again that their love for each other is strong enough to withstand fate and circumstance?
Jun 2021
Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.
Dec 2016
A bruised and beaten wife named Mara seeks the help of Georgian police against her husband Joachim. In this He-she said film, truths, lies and the dark past will be uncovered.
Merlie is a playful girl whose imagination makes her drawings come alive. As her home, their community, faces the threat of demolition, she makes her bravest decisions in her final bid to mark their space in a cruel city.
Sep 2025
A young couple's relationship starts to fall apart because of infidelity. Tormented by thirst and mad with passion, a bloody end awaits when the truth is discovered.
Apr 2023
After cruelly insulting a trans woman, Ena is struck by a bizarre curse: in the middle of an intimate moment, she discovers her vagina has vanished. She's given a magical flower and a warning — she must find someone who truly loves her, even without it, before the last petal falls.
Jun 2025
A gay couple has been in an open relationship for seven years. But when one of them proposes on having a more exclusive set-up, will the other give in to keep their relationship?
Oct 2024
Basil, a 30-year-old womanizer, has his life turned upside down when he wakes up from a night of drunken sex with his straight best friend, Theo, who is about to be married. Suddenly, every time he tries to hook up with a woman, a man magically appears to have sex with him instead. Is this a result of a curse from one of the countless women he has hurt? Or is this the outcome of his unconfronted feelings for his best friend?
Sep 2024
After her best friend dies, Barbs starts a new life as a straight man named Bobby, which leads her to Trisha's ex-boyfriend Michaelangelo, to her own ex-boyfriend Greg and to a woman claiming she is pregnant with Barbs' child.
Jan 2019
The Philippines, 1902. The land is raw, wounded, occupied. Smoke clings to the trees. Blood soaks the soil. The war is over – but the violence lingers. Widows fill the villages. Mothers vanish into silence. Among them walks Sisa (Hilda Koronel), barefoot and broken, dismissed as mad by those who fear what they don't understand. But madness is only the surface.
Mar 2026
Sarah, a middle-aged woman who hustles as the sole breadwinner of her family of two, scrambles to teach online courses and meet her food orders to provide for her delinquent son Emman. One day, Sarah brings home Oliver, one of her students, to give him refuge from his violent father. Oliver's presence will have an unimagined impact on Emman.
Sep 2023
The story of Raffy and Gela who find themselves taking off for Palawan to escape the not so great realities of their current lives and catch up on their respective me-time. But as fate would have it, they find themselves meeting and enjoying each other's company.
Jan 2018