Amidst heightened quarantine restrictions, a group of Badjao roams the locale of Agusan del Sur in search of food and a way to get through the day. This is a story about their survival, hopes, and worldview as they also experienced the challenges of the pandemic.
Before their mother left for work, 17-year-old Amando was tasked to take care of Kit, his sick younger brother. From their shack, both boys traverse a long way to the next hill to get a bottle of an illegal herbal remedy for Kit.
Marla and her father escape the city in the midst of the threatening spread of an infectious virus. With their lives at stake, both face the past they keep running away from.
A student is gripped with the emotions of being an academic achiever.
Orson, an awkward multimedia specialist, discovered that he has 'Keratoconus', an eye condition that can quickly deteriorate one's eyesight, and lead to blindness. His friends, Stanley and Francis, come up with a plan to make sure that Orson will be ready when the day comes.
An experimental surreal drama inspired by stories of Filipinos living in Paris.
A short film stitched together from found footage, clandestine voice recordings, and sit-down interviews from a mysteriously abandoned documentary about an unidentified corpse found at the apartment of a man who claims to be a police informant.
The mystical land of Kaak has returned to its former magical splendor. Two powerful crossbred creatures meet again and face their past. They must make the ultimate choice for themselves and for the good of Kaak, to prevent their own undoing.
A business in the middle of bankruptcy struggles with the upkeep of its day-to-day low mortality life. As the owners devise a plan to drive up revenue, and with more "meat" coming in... they realize that nothing is what it seems.
A twenty-year old daughter with Autism Spectrum Disorder is left alone at home after her mother, a frontliner putting in work against the COVID-19 pandemic, fails to come home one night. The emotional and psychological struggles are then shared by people whom she meets or sees throughout her isolation.
A story of a community that finds light and strength in each other’s courage amidst the hypercritical and pejorative world they live in. As they look for a final resting place for their departed friend, Julie, their faith in each other and in the world is challenged.
Everyone is dealing with the lockdown brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, face to face classes were not permitted but education must continue in the “new normal setting”. The short film will follow the journey of Abby, a teacher tasked to distribute and retrieve self-learning modules to an isolated and disadvantaged area in Mindanao.
A woman deals with a deep, dark trauma she wishes she could get over.
This is the account of a Japanese man who lived in the Philippines for a while before returning to Japan. Despite the fact that he is separated into two distinct times, he has many loose ends and regrets in his past that he is attempting to resolve in his present. Is he able to connect the dots from his history to his present?
Lucas and Claire navigate through daily family life without their son, who leaves them a letter before his passing.
Kokoy, a 5-year old inquisitive boy, dwells on the idea of how his environment has changed. Everyone wears masks, shields, and people have become distant. As a young kid, he finds it hard to understand the circumstance that also affected his mom's presence. He seeks answers through his own ways: one of those being from his neighbor.
Aga-Hiw, a star who works in a galactic real estate agency, falls in love with a human woman he saw during work, but is held back because of the galactic rules.
In Zambales, two siblings try to survive the trials of living on their own by following the pieces of wisdom they remember from their grandmother.
A group of young people on the small island in Mambacayao Dako located in the Visayan Sea are fighting to protect their sea. Until this day, they continue to aim to have a formally legalized marine protected area.
An artist named Samuel wrestles with loneliness as he tries to finish his last painting.
