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During the course of one night, a young journalist is set to finish his investigative report that will expose the private army of an influential...

An ambitious dancer hallucinates her other self while practicing the piece.

A timid teenage boy falls into a hollow void with people who constantly ridicule him. He tries to escape confrontation but seems to be stuck in his...

Before graduating, high school sweethearts Ralph and Angelo face their final test: the rise of AI, love in turmoil, and the choices that could define...

A lonely, introverted girl faces mysterious encounters during her high school class’ religious retreat trip.

Ana embarks on a captivating journey back to her roots in Cabanatuan City for her grandmother’s grand 75th birthday celebration.

A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris is...

A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile...

Ace, a closeted gay guy, learns Judo in a class full of straight men, channeling his inner Mulan.

A film by Fea Fortuna

A trans woman mourns her lover’s inexplicable disappearance through ritual and performance across different spaces that tether her to both his...

Coming back home after thirteen years, a 16 year old is forced to remember what little she knows of home when her mother decides to run away. In a...

Within the walls of a domesticated city, three Filipina PCOS warriors find themselves stuck in a loop of their nightmares from women’s hell....

The Reyes family prepares to take a family portrait.

A war-torn grandmother, Lola Mame conceals her past from her tenacious and curious grandson Sen. He is persistent in uncovering his grandmother's...

In the Bagong Lipunan Negros Island, Philippines of 1985, a family of dumaan farmers and their community faces a brutal threat of the Amomonggo....

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a...

The film is an exploration of the queer body’s struggle to attain validation and evade exploitation. In a society where queer identities have...

After losing both parents, two brothers search the skies for solace and clarity. Could the answer be really out of this world?

Years of destruction to the rich, ancestral land, culture, and relationships in Nueva Vizcaya by a large-scale foreign mining company has divided the...