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VENUES
Full Length
Three land rights activists contend with their volatile notions of home amid terror and red-tagging in Cagayan Valley.
Full Length
(Son of Boy Kana)
At a wake, a persevering high school student must prove that he is the 82nd child of the Philippines’ biggest action-fantasy movie star in the hopes of seeing his late father one last time.
Full Length
Recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, a young filmmaker begins shooting at a site where 1,000 men, women, and children were slaughtered. But the angry spirits are awakened and the lives of her team and the local villagers are put in peril.
Full Length
ng Hydra Ang Kasaysayan
Four Filipinos confront the slow erasure of memory and truth in a country devoured by disinformation.
Full Length
Four queer women in their 30s who are exes-turned-best-friends navigate adulthood, love, friendship, chosen families, and everything in between.
Full Length
(Night Light)
Five days before the proclamation of Martial Law, the Colgante Bridge collapsed in Naga, forcing a father into a desperate search for his missing son.
Full Length
(A Trial)
Years after experiencing sexual harassment at her workplace, a former executive assistant is persuaded by a passionate lawyer to file a case against her rich and highly respected boss.
Full Length
A young man's quest for truth and justice intertwines with a plane crash mystery, uncovering a sinister plot that propels his desire to be heard but also threatens his community.
Full Length
When the local government threatens to evict her from her own land, a farmer renounces her Filipino citizenship and builds her own micronation.
Full Length
Kitkat, a 19-year-old transgender woman, finds the family she’s been longing for in a gang of sisters who kidnap foreign men to fund their gender-affirming surgeries, until their crimes force her to question the true cost of belonging.
Short Films
Thelma, an exploited call center agent, grows increasingly enamored by the late night host of the local lottery draw.
Short Films
(Tomorrow)
While the world is lost in screens, a young Kalinga girl - untouched by the pull of technology - brings a handmade instrument to class, carrying the voice of her ancestors and inspiring a quiet yet powerful return to cultural pride.
Short Films
(Gills)
One summer, a young boy witnesses his grandmother slowly transforming into a tilapia.
Short Films
Alec Dominguez, a 20 something year old multi talented, multi-awarded-golden-boy- adopted by-the–owners–of–gay-philanthropists has a reunion with his old buddies from his original home, The Dominguez Orphanage.
Short Films
A young girl turns into a fish and recounts the territorial aggression being experienced by the fisherfolk in her hometown Zambales.
Short Films
In his desperation to send money to his girlfriend, a debt-stricken seafarer takes his superior’s help, only to sense an unknown presence tightening its hold on him.
Short Films
Across a white void, old pages come to life and speak. A cacophony of archival voices of rebellious youth in a private all-boys Catholic high school during a moment of political turmoil breaks through, seeking liberation as lines break out of formation and colored ink spills
out of the pages.
Short Films
A young rookie from a bizarre chicken-dance group faces a heckler after being the worst dancer at a performance -- leading him to a series of strange events that reveal what the group does to their weakest link.
Short Films
After a sexual assault, a young woman navigates a cold and bureaucratic system over the course of 24 hours, fighting to reclaim her safety and sanity while battling the manipulations of her assailant.
Short Films
Two sad boys harness the power of their love in an attempt to survive a world devastated by climate change.
