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Kampon
After 8 years of marriage, a childless couple named Clark and Eileen meet a little girl who one day, came knocking at their door claiming to be Clark's child. Despite the unexpected situation, the wife accepts the child and temporarily fosters her while figuring the next steps. Meanwhile, Clark investigates the child's history while Eileen begins to develop an odd and eerie relation with the child.
Retirada
A retired government employee’s new hobby leads to existential desperation and financial complications.
Rooftop
A group of friends experiences terror because of a prank that went wrong.
A Toy in The River
Lola
A mischievous child arrives on an enigmatic island and learns the value of time and life as he finds his way back home to his father.
Broken
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.
Once Before
Lola Cindy
After a tragic car crash, Gabby finds herself in a love triangle with the ghost of her fiancé and a friend seeking more than a platonic relationship.
Sunday Night Fever
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.
Hellcome Home
A family moves into an old house, unaware of its diabolic, bloody history. The film features two separate stories from different time periods: the Villareal family from the present time, and the Domingo family who lived in the same house back in the 90s.
Amor ao Primeiro Som
Old Waitress
Uma profissional do sexo veterana dorme com um garoto de programa novato, e eles logo descobrem que apenas uma relação física não basta.
Finding You
Love in the time of hyperthymesia.
Familia Blondina
Cindy leaves her family and moves to the US to marry an American soldier. When her husband dies, he leaves her in debt and is forced to go back to the Philippines with her three blonde children to support them. She then meets Tony, a widower with blonde children as well and raises their children on what it means to be a Filipino.
Asuang
Adelaida
ASUANG, the God of Sins, was once a ruthless and fickle God of Bicol, but now he is a loner and a loser who has no place in the world that is overrun by sinful human beings. He resorted to social media to regain his former glory and fame but to no avail. On his track to retirement, he was approached by the Seers to help them stop Armageddon. Along with a group of sinful misfits, Asuang will go on a quest, against his nature, to help mankind… Or so he thinks he will.
Sweet Potatoes
Set in the Philippines, 2052, the planting of kamote (sweet potatoes) has been outlawed and those caught planting and selling kamote are put in jail, no thanks to the Kamote Planting Regulation Act
Delia & Sammy
Delia, a faded movie star, finds out she is dying and looks for someone to care for her chronically ill husband, Sammy. Using their trusty old Mercedes Benz, the two travel far in the hopes of finding acceptance and forgiveness from Sammy's estranged family.
Mr. & Mrs. Cruz
Marlene Bernardo
The story of Raffy and Gela who find themselves taking off for Palawan to escape the not so great realities of their current lives and catch up on their respective me-time. But as fate would have it, they find themselves meeting and enjoying each other's company.
Mama’s Girl
Loti
Young girl learns life lessons from loving mother.
Grandma Loleng
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 secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.
Revenge
A strong and loving woman fight to get back everything that is stolen from her.
Tibak
The film is based on the progressive and nationalist youth organization “Kabataang Makabayan” (KM), founded in 1964. Kabataang Makabayan was led and co-founded by Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, four years before they also reestablished the Communist Party of the Philippines
I America
A complex half-Pinay, half-Caucasian lady looking for American living in Olongapo City (Philippines) who tries to get her passport and US visa in order to meet her father personally for the first time.
Hiblang Abo
Infinite struggles among four men in their twilight years, confined in a hospice facility or home for the aged. Their gray hair grows and fades unnoticed, their lives enter the void of oblivion. Everything unfolds so naturally into their swan song until their body pains and heartaches yield the same intensity, when their hearing and their feelings become permanently impaired; and when their blurry vision and memories become “clear” signs that the inevitable state of death is as fleeting as the vibrancy of life itself.
Magtanggol
A political family tries to hold on to their integrity and reputation as they face a difficult crisis.
Ned’s Project
An itinerant tattoo artist joins a talent reality show for lesbians in the hopes of winning the prize money that will enable her to get artificially inseminated and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a mother.
My Bebe Love: #KiligPaMore
Dondi is a nerd and an obedient nephew to his aunt Cora who makes decisions for him. Meanwhile, Anna is a stubborn and rebellious girl who seeks the attention of her father Vito. Dondi and Anna cross path and their different personalities collide. They eventually fall in love with each other and solve their own problems. Vito and Cora are bitter business competitors and because of their rivalry, they disapproved the romantic relationship between Dondi and Anna.
Dog Nation
Amid legalized corruption, a son struggles to prove to his father that he is fit to survive in a dog-eat-dog society.
Scarecrow
The search for a missing watch instigates the painful quest for the truth in Belyn’s and her son’s life.
Shake, Rattle & Roll XV
Lola Juling (segment "Flight 666")
A snake creature secretly lurks inside a shopping mall. A family is fed a meal that turns them into monsters. An airplane hijacking is interrupted by the birth of a tiyanak.
Tigbao
Its been 16 years since Mang Celio's son has gone missing. When a forensic team arrives to investigat the disappearances, Mang Celio goes through a range of emotions as he unearth his truths.
Dilim
Tita Ludy
A nursing student encounters strange occurrences around the dorm where she's staying. She enlists of another student to unravel the mystery of the dormitory.
The Trial
Mrs. Deputado
A mentally-challenged guy was put into trial after allegedly raping his teacher. And as Amanda, Julian, and Ronald try to mount a convincing defense, they discover soon that they're all connected in more ways than just the case.
Dementia
A woman who cannot remember begins to see ghosts of the past.
Where I Am King
A grandfather is on the brink of bankruptcy and brings his grandchildren back to the community that made nd shaped him, only to find that the place is no longer the same.
Boy Golden: Shoot-To-Kill
Mrs. Gilda
The film is very, very loosely based on the life of Arturo Porcuna (Jeorge Estregan). Once upon a time, he was known as Boy Anino, notorious leader of the Bahala Na gang. But rival gangster Tony Razon (John Estrada) attacked him in his home, leaving his entire gang and his family dead in the ruins. But Porcuna survived, and now he returns under a new alias, Boy Golden, and he seeks revenge against those that did him wrong. Along the way, he meets Marla D (KC Concepcion), a dancer who also has a bone to pick with Razon. Together, the two carry out a dangerous plan to take on Manila’s toughest gangsters.
My Little Bossings
Sister Remy
Torky is a bookkeeper working for Baba a millionaire cash management specialist. Because of some conflict in her business that puts her life in danger, Baba entrusts the safety of her son Justin to Torky who takes him home to meet his daughter Ice and Ching the street urchin that the latter took under her wing. Given that Justin is not particularly fond of Torky, how all four of them would get along under one roof becomes the focus of the story.
Ang Maestra
A retired school teacher on the verge of senility finds difficulty in connecting with her grandson, who is now taking care of her.
Barber's Tales
Manang Elvie
In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation.
The Guerilla is a Poet
The tale of an activist’s journey during the turbulent years of Martial Law, until his capture in the mountains and the dark, nine years of imprisonment that followed, leading to his birth as a poet.
Anita's Last Cha-Cha
Lolita
A 12-year old Anita falls in love with the new woman in town; years later, a girlhood crush blossoms during the Fiesta of Santa Clara in Obando, Bulacan.
Sta. Niña
When Paulino Mungcal and his co-worker in a lahar-filled quarry unexpectedly dig up the remains of his 2-year daughter Marikit, they discover that she showed no signs of decay. Could this be a miracle, and could she -- despite death – cure the sick? Inspired by whatever healing power the deceased child may have, Pol asks the church to declare her a saint. But how, when her resurgence stirs up emotions buried by time, and shores up questions about pure love, guilt, sin and salvation?
Pridyider
Tita Angie
Years ago, Tina (Andi Eigenmann) was sent away to the United States to live with her aunt because of an incident involving her parents that has never been explained to her. She moves back to the Philippines into their old home, hoping for a new start. Unfortunately for her, shes not alone in the house. The kitchen is home to a demonic, human-eating refrigerator. Tina must dig into the past to discover the truth about what happened to her parents, and to find a way to defeat the infernal appliance.
Mga Mumunting Lihim
The death of Mariel was met with such hurt by her three closest friends. But it was her best friend, Carla that she leaves a most special gift, a box full of her diaries through the years. Carla has been Mariel’s friend since their high school years; they have practically shared everything in their lives together. Their two other girl friends, Sandra and Olive formed the quartet who would get together ever so often and served as a mutual support system. Despite warnings from Sandra and Olive not to read the diaries left behind by Mariel, Carla could not help herself to find out what was written on those volumes of handwritten materials. True enough, what she discovered completely shattered all her perceptions and beliefs of the friendship shared by the four women through the years.
My Neighbor’s Wife
Nun Counsellor
Aaron and Giselle are an ambitious couple, but their hard work isn’t enough to provide for the comfortable life they desire. The marriage of their well-to-do bosom buddies, Bullet and Jasmine, also goes from bliss to bleak. Their situation heads further south when Bullet ends up in bed with a distraught and inebriated Giselle! Many confrontations later, Jasmine is seen sharing late-night trysts with Aaron while their repentant spouses patiently wait for them at home! With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Amok
Woman Inside Van
The bustling and sweltering rugged intersection of Pasay Rotonda serves as the main setting for this story of interconnected fate and destiny. As a raging man's bullets strays into different directions, the fate of several different characters are sealed and determined. As the temperature rises, the tension escalates and the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end as each one struggles to survive and escape their inevitable end.
San Lazaro
Mrs. Perez
Two estranged friends journey to the town of San Lazaro to ask a faith-healer for help in saving the life of one's brother, who is possessed by an evil spirit.
Mayohan
Chayong
May is the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Christ. In Infanta, Quezon, locals turn each of the 31 days of May into a charming honor not only to celebrate good harvest in their agricultural setting, but also to pay tribute to the virginal virtues of the Mayohan. Every month of May, a padasal or series of novenas commences to mark the beginning of Mayohan. This will culminate in a Pasayaw or Tapusan in every purok of each barangay. A system of ambagan or donation ensues for the festivities to take place.
My Valentine Girls
Manang Vida (segment "Soulmates")
The Valentine offering starts with a loveless bespectacled author pondering over possible themes for his trilogy of love stories. He gets a ribbing from his precocious little sister for wasting too much time writing on the computer.
Slow Fade
Old Lady
A frustrated filmmaker afflicted with a terminal illness. With such a daunting fate, Darius decides to make a series of videos about himself, his community, and the beauty of life. With the passion of filmmaking giving him comfort, strength, and healing, Darius rediscovers his gift, and in so doing, remembers what it means to live.
Layang Bilanggo
Lola Sungit
An aging assassin hides in a facility for abandoned senior citizens to protect a daughter he left years ago.
Till My Heartaches End
Lola Elena
The moment these two saw each other at the café, they couldn’t take their eyes off each other. Their attraction was apparent and it seemed that destiny brought them together. As they got to know the other better, they found solace and comfort in each other’s company. But the security they found in each other soon started to shake when their different life paths take them to different directions. Despite the love they both still have for each other, one must choose to decide when to let go, even if the other is still holding on.
White House
Cecille
6 eager contestants enter a pinoy horror-reality show to survive till daybreak of horror inside the famous Laperal White House in Baguio City. A million pesos is at stake but as the first night draws to a close and each one is being found dead, everyone realizes their lives are also on the line. It is up to spirit medium Jet (Gabby Concepcion) to find out what exactly is going on and who is the real enemy among he many ghosts that haunt the place, which includes a powerful Black Lady who abducted the soul of Jet’s only daughter. A chance of a lifeline with no lifelines… who will survive in the end?
Independencia
Old Woman
Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home.
Marino
Cely
The movie tackles the lives of seafarers and the families they leave behind, a first in Filipino filmdom. It is directed by Ateneo graduate and Cinemalaya alumnus Paul P. Sta. Ana, who also wrote the script.
Sammy's Walk
Connie
Sammy, 9 years old, embraces one day’s adventures with his father who makes most of the day hustling money. Father and son forge a deeper more meaningful bond when an encounter forces them to face the truth.
Kamoteng Kahoy
Principal
A story which happened in a small town in Bohol in 2005. Twenty one pupils died and almost a hundred were hospitalized after eating cassava cakes sold by an old woman, who might have accidentally used pesticide in her ingredients.
Status: Single
Sabel
At 30, Doris can feel her biological clock ticking. For her, nothing can be worse than growing old, lonely and dying a virgin. She needs a man, and she needs one pronto! So to make her dream of walking down the aisle come true, she enlists the help of her best pal, Randy. Will Doris end up with the gorgeous Fil-Am bartender Hans , the intellectual Sean , or the zero self-esteem officemate Inaki? Or will she accept the fact that she’s destined to be single forever, and can be happy that way?
The Other Families
Connie
A mother mourns the loss of her only son alone.
Crossroads
Etang
Paupahan is a series of stories that show how this words play in the lives of people. The first part is a story of a gay father to his lover son with a friend that had been cheated by her husband. it shows love for his friend, son and the lover of his son. the second story is about a father wanted give everything to his family and understand his mentally challenge wife. And the last is about a girl who do have dreams in becoming a star and the living with her smoker mother.
My Monster Mom
Chona
Single-mom Esme gives her daughter for adoption to her elder brother who immediately goes to America. Twenty-seven years later, daughter Abby goes back to the Philippines to meet her real mom. But Abby's excitement is foiled upon knowing that Esme is loud mouthed and worst nightmare. Days spelled hell for Abby, as she discovers that she and her horrific mother are complete polar opposites.
Ang Lihim Ni Antonio
Lola Ester
The story about a teenage boy, Antonio, whose emerging gay sexuality alienates him from his friends and family, until his libertine uncle, Jonbert, comes to live with him and his mother...
Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
Lady Buyer
A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle.
Shake Rattle & Roll 2k5
Matandang Babae (segment "Aquarium")
The second installment of episodes from this classic horror series scares up even more screams than the first. In "Poso," a wealthy client tempts a hack occultist out of retirement. In "Aquarium," a family moves into their new home only to discover that the previous occupants left something terrible behind. And in "Lihim," a pregnant woman fears for the life of her unborn child.
Dubai
Mother of Faye
Summoning his younger brother Andrew to the city of Dubai, the financially stable Raffy a Filipino citizen who's spent several years overseas hopes his sibling can find work so that they can finally move to Canada. Unfortunately, Raffy doesn't expect Andrew to go falling in love with his ex-girlfriend, Faye a woman Raffy, in fact, still cares for very much.
Dreamboy
Hopeless romatic Cyd met three versions of the same man, until she was in for a rude awakening.
The Echo
Marvin's Mother
After moving into his new digs a ratty apartment in a decrepit building Marvin senses that something is amiss. Every night, domestic violence occurs at the home of his neighbors: an alcoholic cop, his wife, Anna, and their daughter, Lara. When bloody apparitions of Anna and Lara flash before Marvin's eyes, he begins to question his sanity in this atmospheric horror film.
Pa-siyam
After their mother's death, her adult children gather in their family home to respect the funereal rite of Pa-sayim. Although they had originally thought she died of natural causes, thy soon realize that a dark force in he home may have played a part in her demise.
Evolution of a Filipino Family
Marya
An intimate epic made with uncompromising and austere seriousness that patiently and methodically observes the collapse and hopeful revival of a poor farming clan.
Malikmata
Sarah is a young woman with the gift of seeing and hearing things before they happen. As a child, she sees her father’s death before it happens.
Anghel sa Lupa
Aurora
While saving his brother's life, Benjo dies, but he decides to forgo the afterlife and remain on Earth as his family's protector in this touching supernatural drama. Determined to help his distraught and lonely mom, Benjo the wayward soul tries desperately to reach out to his loved ones, eventually finding help from another drifting spirit.
Walang Kapalit
Mrs. Rustia
Dennis leaving his wife,Joanna to follow his first love Celine in America.That happened eight years ago.Joanna was had difficulty coping up with the separation.
Pangako... Ikaw Lang
Krystal's Mother
In the hospital, Vince, a womanizer, is comatosed and mistakes Cristina as his guardian angel when he sees her as he opened his eyes. Little did he know that Cristina nearly killed him when she accidentally pulled his life plug. When he got well, he vowed to treat women better and find his guardian angel. One day, Cristina sees Vince with his friends. Cristina was so happy and relieved to see him alive that she hit him on the head. When Vince saw his ‘guardian angel,’ he tracked her down to get to know her better.
Minsan May Isang Puso
Cita
Boyet Palacios is a teenage boy whose family used to be middle class. Reversal of fortune happens after the father gets sick and becomes a vegetable confined to his bed.
Sa Huling Paghihintay
Ms. Malaga
The first time Erik (Bernard Palanca) laid eyes on Geri (Rica Peralejo), he knew that he had met the love of his life.
Sugatang Puso
A divorced man who marries a widowed wife. De Leon's previous wife suddenly develops problems, and De Leon is forced to bring his son back home to live with him, his wife and her own son.
Bayaning 3rd World
Maria Rizal
Two filmmakers try to create a film venturing on the life of Jose Rizal. Before they do that, they try to investigate on the heroism of the Philippine national hero. Of particular focus is his supposed retraction of his views against the Roman Catholic Church during the Spanish regime in the Philippines which he expressed primarily through his two novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. The investigation was done mainly by "interviewing" key individuals in the life of Rizal such as his mother Teodora Alonso, his siblings Paciano, Trinidad, and Narcisa, his love interest and supposed wife Josephine Bracken, and the Jesuit priest who supposedly witnessed Rizal's retraction, Fr. Balaguer. Eventually, the two filmmakers would end up "interviewing" Rizal himself to get to the bottom of the issue.
Mahal Kita, Walang Iwanan
Helen
Live Show
Mrs. Perez
Story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly (Paolo Rivero), Gigi (Klaudia Koronel), Rosita (Ana Capri), Sandra (Hazel Espinosa and Vio (Simon Ibarra) and what drives them to do the inexplicable.
Naked Under the Moon
Sister Louie
A young woman recalls how her father (a fallen priest), her mother (a woman with a secret past) and her teenage sister returned with her to live in their ancestral home after the family business failed. She was plagued with mysterious problems of sleepwalking and began a romance with a young man who tried to cure her.
Phone Sex
A bored young housewife falls prey to the sexy charms of a prank caller. As she finds herself deep into the secret carnal pleasures of phone sex, she likewise finds herself consumed by the fires of the dark, wild and dangerous thrills of promiscuity.
May Isang Pamilya
Luisa
Always Looking for You
Ka Juliet
Adventure story of 2 young professionals, Jinny, a hotel junior executive, and her husband, Brian, a commercial pilot and their daughter Niña.
Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay
Alex's Mom
Ana and Alex fall in love in nostalgic Ilocos. But their individual dreams and responsibilities get in the way of their relationship.
Ang Lahat ng Ito'y Para Sa'yo
Manang at Garments Factory
Ariel escaped being run over by a chauffeur-driven car with Cathy and her sister. The movie moved on with the main characters meeting for the second time in the restaurant where Ariel worked as a waiter. She was so smitten she did everything to win him over.
Halik
Auring
Wala Na Bang Pag-Ibig?
A romantic drama that revolves around childhood friends Eric, Gemma and Ponsie. Eric is the weak, fickle minded playboy, Gemma is the pretty tomboy, and Ponsie on the other hand is their gay friend. Vivian wants Eric as her boyfriend, and Gemma promises to make it happen. However, along the way, Eric and Gemma end up falling in love.
Bakasyon
Grandmother
Raya Martin's award-winning short film Bakasyon is about a young girl who goes to the province to take care of her grandma, where she discovers strange and mysterious things about her lola's identity. The 15-minute film won the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema at the Cinemanila in 2004.