A documentary produced by Cinema One that sees through fully restored film in the eyes of young filmmakers.
Production Design
The once illustrious Lopez-Aranda family has faded. Celia, once the darling of Philippine opera, and Gaspar, a distinguished ex-congressman, lacked the shrewdness to maintain their once elegant status. Saddled with a failed marriage, a vanishing career and mounting debt, Celia sold her share of their house to Gaspar, now bedridden. She managed to stay for free in exchange for being Gaspar’s caregiver. Gaspar loves listening to Celia’s arias. This idyllic arrangement is shattered when he slips into a coma. His daughter, Raquel, comes home from the US, determined to sell the house to salvage her own economic woes abroad. This signals Celia’s impending homelessness. With only a few heirlooms to sell, she is at her wits’ end. A fervent believer of the Sto. Nino, she hopes for a miracle. She dresses up her grandson, Antony, in Sto. Nino robes to prepare him for the coming fiesta.
Production Design
Al is a balikbayan who returns to his former hometown where his mother is buried. There he meets his childhood friend Cristy who works as a counselor for family planning. Eventually they develop a romantic relationship and end up as a couple. However, a mysterious lady appears one day while Al tends to his mother’s grave. Al falls in love with the stranger and is now torn between her and Cristy.
Ivan, a writer living in Manila, walks through the city in search of his past.
Production Design
Un Dracula moderno descubre un método excepcionalmente eficaz para atraer "la sangre nueva" a su castillo. Él forma un harén de prostitutas succionadoras de sangre cuyas cualidades atractivas las permiten hacer caer en la trampa a los hombres de la marina que están de permiso en las costas filipinas.
Art Direction
Un grupo de jóvenes reclutas marines se forman en el campo de entrenamiento durante el 1967, antes de partir a la guerra de Vietnam en el año 1968. Cuando llega la hora del combate, los soldados se ven en una pesadilla infernal desanimados por la lucha inútil, horrorizados por la corrupción de sus aliados de Vietnam del Sur y en constante peligro por la incompetencia del propio comandante de la compañía. Todas sus esperanzas se ven ahogadas hasta que se les dice que, si pueden derrotar al enemigo en un partido de fútbol, pasarán a la retaguardia, pero nada en Vietnam es tan simple como parece.
Production Design
Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.
