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A fourteen-year-old farm boy’s life is suddenly upended when a video of him brutally attacking a classmate goes viral.
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Pipo makes ends meet by taking on the toughest jobs. Life is more difficult because he’s deaf. He supports himself and his teenage lover Cyril. His irate boss is getting difficult and Ben, his childhood friend wants his daughter Cyril back. Like a bomb, Pipo’s ticking to explode, anytime soon.
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The film is about the lives of simple folk caught between the crossfire of Kapitana accused of political patronage, and Patrol Kalikasan using the environment as a front for their own political and economic interests on the small mining community.
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Two women in a remote Muslim community confront an escalating blood feud and reach deep into themselves in hopes to undo the feud stretching back generations.
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Ordinary People is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not even a month into parenthood, their child is stolen from them. In order to retrieve the child, the young couple is forced to take desperate measures.
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A fifty-four-year old single mother lives in Manila. Each night she leaves home to carry out an unusual job.
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In an old house replete with images of Catholic icons and symbols, a young lady struggles with the demented religious fanaticism of her mother, who it seems cannot differentiate between pious fervour and demonic possession for both exist simultaneously in her being.
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About the notorious batang hamog loitering in main thoroughfares such as EDSA.
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Após a passagem do tufão Haiyan, o maior conhecido até à data que devastou a cidade de Tacloban, nas Filipinas, a vida de Bebeth, Larry e Erwin irá cruzar-se. Bebeth está à procura de três dos seus filhos, e tenta identifica-los através da análise ao ADN dos corpos enterrados em valas comuns. Larry, que perdeu a esposa, encontra consolo ao aderir a um grupo de católicos devotos que carregam a cruz por toda a cidade. Erwin, com o seu irmão mais velho, procura esconder da sua irmã mais nova a morte dos pais. Como se a perda da sua família não bastasse, uma série de acontecimentos continuará a por à prova a sua resistência, tal como a das restantes pessoas, que aguardam o momento em que poderão secar as lágrimas que fluem, lentamente.
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Kasal is a slice of life drama of a gay couple whose resolve to stay together is challenged as they attend a wedding. It also is an examination on how a gay couple navigates through the different institutions in Philippine society.
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Four interconnected stories during the height of the Martial Law crackdown against rebels. The palpable aura of fear leaves Filipinos in a state of paralysis, unable or unwilling to move until the dark cloud of history passes over.
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Dorina is a transsexual woman. She’s got herself a flourishing career, albeit in an illegal cosmetic surgery business. She is a mother figure to Hero, her eight year old nephew, and a devoted wife to Uno. Between her job and her family, Dorina feels that she is one lucky woman. Until Uno falls in love.
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Sarah is a nurse at a Public Maternity Hospital. The hospital is abuzz with pregnant mothers of all shapes and sizes in different stages of labor. The hospital is short on staff on Christmas Day so Sarah is forced to put in a double shift. Sarah observes the women coming and going in her ward, noting who is a first-timer and who is a veteran. Meanwhile, the wards are overcrowded : two women and their babies sharing single beds while those in labor are spilling unto the hallways. Sarah takes these all in stride, her heart and mind laboring over her own personal pains.
Art Direction
Duas avós lidam com as consequências de um crime que envolve os seus respectivos netos — um é vítima, o outro suspeito. Frágeis e sem posses, terão de conseguir dinheiro para o enterro de um e para a fiança do outro. Tudo por amor aos netos.
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The heart-tugging story of children who scavenge for metal scraps in the murky waters of Manila Bay, often risking their lives in the process.
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Nanay Flor é a matriarca da família Pineda, que mantém em funcionamento um cinema com sessões duplas de filmes pornô. Todos da família trabalham ao lado de Nanay Flor: a filha Nayda, o genro Lando e a filha adotiva Jewel, além dos sobrinhos Alan e Ronald. Na medida em que os personagens são apresentados, vamos conhecendo os pecados de cada um - a começar por Nanay Flor, que mantém um casamento bígamo.
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A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.
