Films

Winner, Best Performance by an Actress, 2016

A spirited meditation on terminal illness, Manang Biring is a comedy-drama featuring a feisty old lady who has learned to accept her imminent demise, until…

Lorna is about a 60 year old woman who had failed relationships from her past but still decides on taking the chance to find the…

While the marriage of two professors is on the verge of falling apart, the woman is dragged into a scandal involving a young student. On…

Biring is a probinsyana from Bicol who becomes involved in the illegal world of human trafficking. She becomes the right-hand woman of her distant relative…

Winner, Achievement in Directing, Best Performance by an Actress, 2012 Brillante Mendoza is regarded as a living treasure in the Philippines, having won Best Director…

Winner, NETPAC Development Prize, 2012 The film follows three aspiring filmmakers who are set out to make a film for the sole purpose of receiving…

Nico leads two very different lives. As a small town boy, he has to contend with a daily routine of chores, neighborhood bullies, peer pressure,…

Structured in four acts to follow freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years, Philippine Science begins in playful and familiar school conflicts, as teenagers compete for…

Norma straddles between two worlds as mother to Ruby and nanny to Louise. When Norma takes Ruby to the city to live with the family…

The Bicycle is a story of Apoo, a boy of 12 and his cousin Momoy and their quest for a bicycle. It is the start…

Winner, APSA NETPAC Development Prize, 2011 “For its seamless storytelling and documentary quality which evokes the uncertainty and desperation in a little-known story of a…

Marty is an ambitious comic-book artist who has romantic feelings for his best friend Sally. Sally is a beautiful and funny girl, a passionate gadget…

Prolific Filipino director Jun Robles Lana’s Die Beautiful is the story of Trisha, a transgender woman who dies suddenly on stage while being crowned in a…

Set in Old Manila before World War II, this musical film tells the plight of Candida and Paula Marasigan, spinster daughters of painter Don Lorenzo…

The year is 2034 in Manila and following a series of massive volcanic eruptions in the Celebes Sea, Southeast Asia has literally gone dark. As…

Joy and her six-year-old daughter, Angel, live in Manila, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal and alcoholic. Dante routinely returns home drunk at night…

It’s 1987 and the People Power Revolution has resulted in the fall of President Marcos as a massive typhoon approaches the Philippines. For eight-year-old Yael,…

It is 1901 in the Municipality of Balangiga of the Philippines’ Eastern Samar province. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to…

With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakibworks as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna,a retired…

Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators in the Philippines, has reached a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police force, he…

Within the idyllic Philippine tourist destination of Palawan, illegal loggers and President Duterte’s cronies are destroying forests and wildlife. Despite extreme mortal danger, a small…

Sixteen-year-old Ami, haunted by recurring apparitions, embarks on a journey from Singapore to Japan in search of her missing mother. On arrival in Tokyo, a…

A young gymnast finds out she is pregnant in the week of the Philippine national team tryouts. On her way to a seller of illegal…

XiXi is a captivating and free-spirited performer living in Europe. Drawn to the artist’s unique style and Chinese roots, Taiwanese director Fan Wu sparks dialogue…

Eric lives a rather normal life as an animator in the Philippines. But one thing extraordinary about him is his lack of a mouth. One…

Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working 1,000 metres below ground where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living,…