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필리핀 민다나오 서부의 마긴다나오 지역. 성실하게 살아가는 형 자심(피올로 파스쿠알)과 노름에 빠져 가산을 탕진하고 있는 동생 압델(바론 가이슬러)이 있다. 어느 날 먼저 간 남편이 나오는 불길한 꿈을 꾼 홀어머니는 두 아들을 화해시키려 노력한다. 지역 공동체의 도움으로 어렵게 가정의 평화가 찾아오는 듯했다. 하지만 곧 예상치 못한 정부군의 개입으로 지역 전체가 심각한 폭력 사태에 휘말리게 된다.
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upcoming Philippine remake movie of 2013 Mexican hit movie Instructions Not Included.
Producer
츠야마 나오는 프로 권투선수가 되는 것이 꿈이다. 하지만 어린시절 사고로 인해 의족을 달고 있는 장애인인 그에게 일본권투협회에서는 정식 선수자격증 발급하는 것을 곤란해한다. 결국 그가 선택한 길은 연고도 없는 필리핀까지 가서 국제선수자격증을 따오는 것이다. 언어와 문화가 다른 곳인 필리핀 변두리에서 허름한 복싱클럽 원장을 하고 있는 루디를 만난다. 나오는 한때는 잘나가는 선수였지만 지금은 은퇴하고 아마추어들을 육성을 하는 그를 보며 어린시절 아버지에게서 받지 못했던 사랑을 느낀다. 한편 각자의 사정으로 훈련을 하고 있는 동료들과 함께 우정을 쌓으면서 모두 절박함이 있음을 깨닫는다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)
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Peping works as a bodyguard to gambling boss Rodolfo, but when he falls in love with Mika, Rodolfo's mistress, he is convinced to rob the business he has sworn to protect.
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The film follows the story a man who travels to Saga to expand his pottery business in the Philippines, then falls in love with a Japanese woman who is the heiress of a flourishing pottery factory.
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Mikey is at the peak of his career as a chef, but to everyone's confusion, he remains single and unattached. Unbeknownst to them, beneath his manly and innocent good looks lies an insatiable, dark secret. Armed with a telescope, he spies on unsuspecting women inside condo units across his own. One fateful night, his sights catch onto Kim as she makes love to her rich middle-aged partner, Rudy. Their worlds collide when Kim and Rudy begins frequenting the posh restaurant Mikey co-owns. With a common desire to satisfy their needs, Kim and Mikey embark on a dangerous love affair that puts their lives in peril.
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"Balut Country" follows the journey of Jun, an heir to the duck farm left to him by his late father. He must decide whether to sell the property to secure his future, or spare the land's loyal caretakers of inevitable displacement.
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Philip and Bastian are lovers. Philip has taken the responsibility to help his older brother’s family in the slums. However, when Bastian pursues painting and can no longer provide for Philip, Philip resorts to hustling in order to help his brother’s family. When Bastian catches Philip being picked up by a gay man in a car, he decides to keep everything inside. Can Philip and Bastian’s love prevail despite the odds?
Philip and Bastian are lovers. Philip has taken the responsibility to help his older brother’s family in the slums. However, when Bastian pursues painting and can no longer provide for Philip, Philip resorts to hustling in order to help his brother’s family. When Bastian catches Philip being picked up by a gay man in a car, he decides to keep everything inside. Can Philip and Bastian’s love prevail despite the odds?
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Circus hijinks surround the barangay of Sta. Maria in the midst of an international murder sensation. Swanie, Sta. Maria’s barangay chair and a distant relative of the killer, tries to gain political points by staging a wake for the criminal-turned-celebrity. Meanwhile in faraway Manila, Joanna, Swanie’s runaway son, navigates his way through labyrinthine bureaucracy, to give a neighbor a proper burial. With these two unrelated deaths, estranged mother and son each bury the dead long shelved in their hearts. Amidst these unspoken family burials, the neighborhoods’ penchant for funeral fiestas, gossip and secrets, bizarre social events and the sheer mix of scandal and inebriation complete the picture of dying the Pinoy way.
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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.
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What is the measure of true friendship? Jamir, a devout Muslim, and Lando, a Christian, are among an elite group of young recruits formed by military officers for a classified operation. These impressionable young men would undergo intense and grueling training that put their will and strength of character to the test. Amidst all the hardships, these men set aside their differences and became brothers. But what happens when the institution they have sworn to protect becomes the wedge that will tear their brotherhood apart?
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After spending thirty years in prison, Pedro (Lou Veloso), aging and obviously clueless as to what has become of the world outside the penitentiary, is finally freed.
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After spending thirty years in prison, Pedro (Lou Veloso), aging and obviously clueless as to what has become of the world outside the penitentiary, is finally freed.
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Set in a chaotic market place in a small province, a young vegetable vendor seeks vengeance against a meat vendor, who is also the leader of a gang of butchers collecting “bribes” from other vendors in the market. He, his brother, and father are bullied by the leader. He picks a fight with this butcher hoping to be able to beat him up someday. When this butcher hurts his younger brother, he resolves to practice hard to get even. The task at hand may be more difficult than he imagines, but he is willing to kill and be killed in this fight.
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A Filipino transgender woman, Marie, who is drawn into the Yakuza gangster life after befriending Ai, the rebellious daughter of a powerful Yakuza boss. Set against the pulsating background of the 1990s nightlife in Sapporo, Hokkaido, the film charts the almost impossible decisions Marie faced and her tumultuous journey to discovering family, love and ultimately her true identity.