Pauwi Na follows a family’s exodus from Manila to return to their home province. Mang Pepe and Aling Remedios live in a cramped shanty with their daughter Pina, son JP and his pregnant blind wife Isabel; along with their dog, Kikay. To survive daily, Mang Pepe drives his pedicab to deliver goods at the market and Remedios takes laundry from her neighbors. JP and Pina strive to earn in their own ways. Isabel manages to cope in spite of her blindness. A series of unfortunate incidents prompts Mang Pepe to convince his family to leave the city, in the hope of overturning their miserable existence. Without any means to travel, they decide to pedal their way back to the province – riding on their two pedicabs with blind faith and sheer determination. The harrowing journey and fateful encounters soon test the family’s resolve to continue their mission.

This film exposes the human trafficking operation and journey through the seas of Southern Philippines to neighboring Malaysia. Based on research and interviews, this dramatic narrative provides a kaleidoscope of characters hoping for a better life in Sabah, in spite of the dubiousness of the process, and uncertainty of a true job in Malaysia. It also represents a microcosm of the multi-cultural groupings of Mindanao whose diversity is bound by a common goal, an opportunity to earn a living, as they take that illegal small boat ride from their homeland to that foreign “Promised Land.”

Ma' Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa and her children are ready to do anything to buy her freedom from the corrupt police.

Salesgirl discovers the ultimate secret to regularization.

An Aeta from Baytan village in Zambales makes a living from cutting down and burning of trees and hunting on the foothills of Mt. Pinatubo.

In Avenida, the lives of four men intertwine, searching for something. They all find what they are looking for in one woman named Aileen

Intoy takes care of his parents when his sister moved out to work overseas. Since he lives in a remote area in Samar, the only way he could contact his sister is by going to strange rock formations on the island.

An infertile midwife and her husband find a surrogate mother so that they can have a child.

A resolute man unapologetically abandons his first-born, believing that it was the right thing to do. Many years later, an inquisitive documentary filmmaker interrogates him.

Forever is a love story, a family’s journey towards healing a fractured relationship among siblings.

Andrei is a thriving painter whose father, Jun, isn’t in full support of his passion. Their lives take a turn when they both discover Andrei's health status.

I want the important plight of the marginalized people, such as the Tumandok people and their struggle to fight for their right to self-determination and ancestral domain, to be made known to this very audience so that they themselves are propelled into action and hopefully, become agents of change in society.

“Maglabay Ra In Sakit”—a Tausug phrase which roughly translates to “this pain shall pass”—showcases the spirit and resilience of RKJun(Khalid Hamid), a young musician in Zamboanga City who is determined to pursue rap music even as he is beset by the challenges of poverty, loss, and the effects of terrorism in Western Mindanao, Philippines.

A metaphorical exploration of life in a 'quarantined world' where we begin to don masks with the hopes to fight the unseen enemy camouflaging in human and non-human forms.

A Korean-Filipino who lives on an island in the Philippines wants to return to Korea and meet his father.

An aging Caucasian has a phone conversation with his young Filipina lover who tried her best to win him and persuade to visit her country. During conversation, he has seen her beauty and contrasting social ills surrounding her until the phone got snatched making him witness an unforgettable seen. This is a short film shot entirely with a mobile phone.

Ria, a daughter talks to her mother, an Overseas-Filipino nurse, during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ria tries to hold back her tears as her mother seemingly pushes her away.

A xerox machine examines the narratives attached to the documents being reproduced.

After burying their deceased parent beneath the farmland, they used to call home, a devoted loving sister saves the ultimate dream of her suffering sister in a disease who suffers from ALS (Amyotriphic lateral sclerosis) that is about to take over her life.

The pedaling of the poorest family using a pedicab towards the complicated world of the underground prostitution.

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

Gema lost her daughter and started looking for her as she became anxious about it.

As the countdown begins for the end of the world, Lu Araullo tries to make amends with his mother and his ex-boyfriend. With only a few hours left, will he get the closure he needs?

Ang Maangas, Ang Marikit at Ang Makata (The Cool, the Fool, and the Lovely) is a one-act play for film about the characters meeting on an ordinary day. Alfonso, a warrior from the Other Side goes to town in search of the Captain for a payment that is owed to him. He arrived at the house seeing Liwliw, the Captain's daughter practicing her dance. Complications arise when Delfin, a passionate poet, serenades the young lady.

Jun is a farmer who lives near a pineapple field with his mother Dita and his brother Mako. His aunt from Manila who can't bear a child offers to adopt Mako with a promise to give him a good life. Jun and Mako face their impending separation and think of ways they can spend every minute together.

A boy and girl meet in the middle of a public cemetery for the first time.

A 50-year-old trans woman forgets she had gender reassignment surgery upon emerging from coma. Her 7-year-old daughter helps her recollect her memories.

Two brothers deal with the sudden loss of a father and an eventual separation with their overseas-filipino-worker mother. Some things are hard to grasp that's why they turn to out-of-this-world things for an explanation.

A mother who longs for her daughter copes with the distance by listening to her recorded voice messages. The two are about to visit Hong Kong together until an unforeseen event occurs.

At present, people would identify friends as those they see on the screens of their monitors or phones. This film, directed by Anya Zulueta, explores the issue of social dynamics through a screen: a window screen, and whether it ultimately makes “interaction” mean any less.

Tells the story of a 10-year-old boy from a family struggling in poverty who wakes up to what seems to be an enticing day. Having only his dreams and determination with him, he goes on his way for the first day of school.

A little boy does not know that his grandfather just died. To spare him from grief, his mother brings home a stray goat and tells him it is his grandfather.

Two young girls travel through time to assassinate a barangay dictator to revise history. This is Babylon.

A rural town unknowingly goes on with its mundane activities while strong forces of nature silently creep in to challenge their existence. Meanwhile, the filmmaker traces back his roots while preparing himself for the worst after the typhoon.

John reluctantly returns to his hometown when his sister, Gibby, drags him to the annual Water Festival. When Gibby disappears, John turns to an old friend he has been avoiding all these years for help. As he searches for his sister, he is forced to reopen old doors he thought were long closed.

On the eve of her school's annual Talent Show in a small rural village in the mountains of Iloilo, twelve-year-old Thirdy has to deal with the realities of her difficult financial situation and ominous visions of a ghostly man.

Budjang tells the story of the blossoming of LGBT people in a conservative muslim barangay (community) in Mindanao, and highlights their customs. While this community has exercised tolerance towards LGBT people, there is still much that needs to be done in order to achieve acceptance and inclusion. Through education about human rights and SOGIE, the community has the potential of becoming a model barangay for tolerance and acceptance of LGBT people in Mindanao.

"Budots" has swept the entire nation by storm. But the dance craze that has people move around in uncoordinated, freestyle dance to a weird mix of electronic sound and noises, originated in Davao City in Southern Philippines before it got viral in the Internet and social media. An internet bum and a small group of people in his community started it all..

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18-year-old college freshman, Jhemerlyn Rose, informs her boyfriend, Jogbert, that her period is 5 days delayed. What follows is a series of attempts to control the situation that eventually ends with the both of them doing something they regret.

Dindo, the son of a film editor in the 1970s, revisits the old workspace of his father and finds himself talking with the characters of a film.

A fat girl named Trixie was invited in a class reunion. Bullied before because of her physical appearance, she is afraid to show up. Will he attend the reunion as she is? Or will she show up as “new”?

Set during the launch of the first space shuttle of the Philippines - an ordinary old couple living in the suburbs attempts to go about their life during this strange day.

An elderly man’s craving for sisig leads his family on a quest to look for an elusive restaurant that serves that wonderful Kapampangan dish

Jude seems like a typical teenage boy living a normal life. He has a small group of friends whom he has by his side all the time, and a girlfriend, Eunice, whom he is head over heels for. But right when he thinks that things are falling into place, Jude opens his eyes to a reality where a significant part of his life is not really there.

Unmasking the true faces of one of the Philippines' most expensive artifacts, the bul-ul (or rice god).

A short documentary about the washed away history of Sulu - its rise and fall, and how it was the center of the Filipino Moro nation.

Previously dedicated to her job at a soon-to-close gas station, the subject devotes her last night of employment to some questionable acts, thereby reflecting the increasingly anarchic nature of the society around her.

Joy, a mother of a 4 year-old girl, finally decides to file a case under domestic violence against her abusive husband, Dante.

A dancer in a nightclub, Junilyn has to learn new moves to attract more customers during the Pope's visit to the Philippines. But while she rehearses, she is also preparing her bold move to free herself.

A boy collects all stuff used by his mother to beat him for disciplinary sanctions.

Kints and Charles have been together for almost a decade. One day, Kints wakes up and discovers that her lover has changed, literally. Although troubled at first, she eventually understands that what happened is a natural phenomenon. Through this, she is reminded that people change all the time and love can change people.

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 parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng's landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secret and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the person and of the national consciousness.

Makartur believes that if you study hard, you'll be able to achieve your dreams–at least that's what his teacher said. But when he meets Maginhawa, a homeless orphan who spends her days in the playground, Makartur knows he has to help her. After all, not being able to go to school shouldn't get in the way of getting an education.

A daughter writes a letter full of grief and regret.

“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 movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; something breaks into her window and wakes her up from her Hollywood dream.

A transgender sampaguita farmer decided to renovate their neglected kitchen as soon as she heard that her son is going home.

A small fishing community struggles amidst an oil spill. Meanwhile, part of that community is a prepubescent and cheerful young boy struggling with his identity who finds comfort in his dreams of becoming a mermaid.

A group of quirky girls are confined in a pseudo-sorority group where violence and friendship are uncannily intertwined. Sandra and her best friend attempt to escape this twisted world on her birthday.

Indulging in the sweetness and pleasures of life, Ivan Rosales has been living the good life. Pure bliss is what he wants, and gets, every day. Like a day that ends, however, the idea of perfect happiness turns into an illusion.

Taking its title from the disparaging term attributed to Filipino boys yet to be circumcised after a designated age, Phil Giordano's SUPOT sees a young boy attempt to shake of the shameful stigma of cowardice after refusing to take part in the transitional ritual.

In a culture where designs are dreamt about and to be woven only by women, a T'boli man is challenged to face a cultural norm as the abaca goddess shows him a pattern to weave in his dreams.

Viral Kids is about the trending stories of five different street children who have their own past and dreams but being hindered and utilized by an unknown force behind the online scheme.

The filmmaker talking to over 13 years of home videos in an imagined conversation with her daughter’s younger years. The filmmaker’s failed coming out when her child was only 3 years old inspired the initial concept for this experimental documentary.

An unusual but relatable conversation between two adolescent girls about their dreams and family traditions forces them to confront the reality in which they live.

The life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.

A woman after killing her husband and his friends goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist becomes interested in the case and resolves to unravel the truth behind the murders.

Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.

Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila, they are tricked to work in the sex trade.

In the shores of Sulu lives the sea-faring tribe that is ruled by Datu Tanbuong. His granddaughter, Minda is betrothed to be married to Danao, who is a handsome young pearl fisher who presents a handful of impressive pearls to the datu.

Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother suddenly shows up to claim her son

A unique collaboration between Tahimik and his eldest son Kidlat Gottlieb Kalayaan, Why is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? is a long-form collage film exploring a decade of American neocolonialism in the Philippines and the US. Inspired by a trip to Monument Valley and the Navajo Nation while en route to the Telluride Film Festival, the two Kidlats use the "spaghetti machine" (Tahimik's nickname for his Bolex camera) to make their own "spaghetti western." The decade-long path of the film encompasses the assassination of Bagnino Aquino and the subsequent Yellow Revolution that brought Corazon Aquino to power, the decommissioning of the US air base Camp John Hay, and the younger Kidlat's trajectory through school, all shown through a Third World Projector salvaged from a junk pile on Navajo land. Filtering a wide range of political and cultural concerns through an intensely personal and familial lens, Why is Yellow - is the central film in Tahimik's cinematic cosmology.

Kidlat Tahimik along with his bamboo camera presents an aural and video tapestry of his alternative post-colonialist version of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition that led to the first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth.

Temujin, who later became Genghis Khan is wise, or sometimes cunning. He goes through several heroic episodes; competing at the Man of Men contest, falling in love with the enemy commander's daughter, and struggling to restore his demolished hometown. Meanwhile his steps guide him to be a great conqueror. Khan's witty, humorous side in his adolescent years before he takes the throne.

A taxi dancer (Rita Gomez) and taxi driver (Vic Vargas) are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director (Eddie Garcia). The obsession with success forces them to affect images as movie stars, which suppress and eventually destroy them as persons and lovers.

A Filipino jeepney driver (Kidlat Tahimik) who idolizes America's space program comes to reject the rapid encroachment of technology.

Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s endless capacity for creativity, whether on the moon or at home in the Philippines. A delightful, self-proclaimed “third-world space spectacle."

Set in 1955, the residents of a small idyllic village in Quezon are jolted to discover the dark, disturbing secret of a soldier and his common-law wife. Guilt and recrimination abound in the town and forces our protagonist into a six decade long journey of remorse, forgiveness and retribution.

It builds a dream – – a dream that never happened, a dream that haunts the living, a dream that has no closure because the person dreaming it will never wake up – – of a child that remains ectopic all his life…

Luna went missing. Jason Harper, her American husband, is suspected of killing her. As Jason intends to leave the country, circumstances conspire to avert his plan.

"Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, belongs to an urban poor family hired by a local Foster Care Facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter’s formal adoption. The inevitable separation is always a heart-rending event to the foster family. "

When Section Zamora contracts a mysterious virus during a field trip, they are quarantined by the military in an abandoned facility. Students Ada, RJ, Princess, and Migs fight for their survival as they deal with the dangers of the infectious virus and politics among untrustworthy classmates.

In the near-future Manila, mysterious blackouts hit random parts of the city. People disappear inside these blackouts. The only way to survive being caught in one is to find a safe house. A house with no windows nobody has seen, let alone inside of. Four friends think it's all an elaborate hoax. Until they get caught in the middle of one.

Romy and Peewee are teenage orphans in the Philippines with an unusual job; they loot the cemeteries and steal precious belongings left for the dead. The townspeople are fed up with their disrespect for the dead that a hefty reward awaits for their capture. Desperate to flee the town, the sail to a desolated island only to encounter a greater foe - THE UNDEAD, victims of contagious alien virus that were unleashed from an ancient meteorite discovered by the obsessed American Scientist named William Seabrook. Trapped on an island and left with nothing to defend themselves, the grave bandits must use their wits to battle the swarm of flesh eating ghouls!