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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...

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

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

Ling is in her last year in elementary school. One school day, her botanist father fails to pick her up and doesn't return home from fieldwork....

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

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

Confined and isolated within the four corners of her room, a woman’s confusion grows as her room becomes smaller, with marks appearing after...

Short and innocent glimpses of human relationships through the lens of a photobooth aching for connection.

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...

Two strangers walking in a circular road find themselves in another place where they have to drift in the middle of who they are and who they want to...

“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...

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

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...

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

A film by Fea Fortuna

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...

The Reyes family prepares to take a family portrait.

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...

A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.

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