Xeph Suarez

Filmes

Ero
Assistant Director
A group of high school misfits become unlikely superheroes as they discover their “useless” powers.
City of Flowers
Director
As the city of Zamboanga celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, a couple tries to survive to survive the drought that has been wrecking havoc on their flower farm and raise enough money for the wife's imminent childbirth. Meanwhile, a tragedy – which will be later be known as the 2013 Zamboanga Siege – is about to strike.
How to Die Young in Manila
Assistant Director
An introverted teenage boy lies to his parents that he'd sleep over at his friends'. However, he made an appointment with a random guy found on a dating app. The street is filled with dead hustlers, but nobody seems to notice these strange occurrences.
Displaced
Producer
A beguiling series of psychedelic random footage encapsulates pieces of memories of children survivors during the Marawi siege. They revisit their stories of survival in the onset of the war. These little dreamers still hope that one day, they will return in their normal and playful lives and revive the place they once called home.
Us Again
Assistant Director
Margie, a medical technician whose dream of becoming a doctor has never come into fruition, and Mike, an artist who struggles to get by in his day-to-day life, are two estranged lovers who have fallen in love in each other only to find their relationship crumbling to pieces. Five years later, they meet again and they ask themselves if they could be together again, if they have learned from the mistakes they made in the past, if it is too late to start all over again.
Astri and Tambulah
Editor
Astri is a 16-year old transwoman in a relationship with 17-year old Tambulah. Although it’s an unusual sight at the community where they live, nobody bothers them. Subsisting on the coins people throw at them when they perform their traditional dance at the sea. Everything is perfect except that Sama Bajao traditions and a pact made long ago require Astri to marry a woman she hardly knows
Astri and Tambulah
Producer
Astri is a 16-year old transwoman in a relationship with 17-year old Tambulah. Although it’s an unusual sight at the community where they live, nobody bothers them. Subsisting on the coins people throw at them when they perform their traditional dance at the sea. Everything is perfect except that Sama Bajao traditions and a pact made long ago require Astri to marry a woman she hardly knows
Astri and Tambulah
Director
Astri is a 16-year old transwoman in a relationship with 17-year old Tambulah. Although it’s an unusual sight at the community where they live, nobody bothers them. Subsisting on the coins people throw at them when they perform their traditional dance at the sea. Everything is perfect except that Sama Bajao traditions and a pact made long ago require Astri to marry a woman she hardly knows
Hondo
Script
Mara is scared of water. She has a rare condition that keeps her from touching any forms of liquid. As a single mother, her only pearl is her frisky son Elim, who was later on diagnosed with a life threathening disease. The boy’s only request is to learn how to swim.
Hondo
Producer
Mara is scared of water. She has a rare condition that keeps her from touching any forms of liquid. As a single mother, her only pearl is her frisky son Elim, who was later on diagnosed with a life threathening disease. The boy’s only request is to learn how to swim.
Blessed Art Thou
First Assistant Director
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.
I Am Malik
Editor
Toto, 8, and Jr, 10, are victims of a recent armed conflict in their city. While playing among the war ruins, they discuss and re-enact their individual war experiences. This story is set in Zamboanga City after the standoff in 2013 between the forces of the Republic of the Philippines and a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front led by Habier Malik.
I Am Malik
Producer
Toto, 8, and Jr, 10, are victims of a recent armed conflict in their city. While playing among the war ruins, they discuss and re-enact their individual war experiences. This story is set in Zamboanga City after the standoff in 2013 between the forces of the Republic of the Philippines and a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front led by Habier Malik.
I Am Malik
Director
Toto, 8, and Jr, 10, are victims of a recent armed conflict in their city. While playing among the war ruins, they discuss and re-enact their individual war experiences. This story is set in Zamboanga City after the standoff in 2013 between the forces of the Republic of the Philippines and a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front led by Habier Malik.
I Am Malik
Writer
Toto, 8, and Jr, 10, are victims of a recent armed conflict in their city. While playing among the war ruins, they discuss and re-enact their individual war experiences. This story is set in Zamboanga City after the standoff in 2013 between the forces of the Republic of the Philippines and a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front led by Habier Malik.
Dancing the Tides
Director
Astri, a 16-year-old Muslim transwoman and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tambulah live in bliss in their conservative Sama Badjao community until Astri’s father tells her to marry the girl she is betrothed to.