Essential Truths of the Lake

Essential Truths of the Lake

Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran continues...

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From What Is Before

From What Is Before

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is...

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Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution

Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution

Deliberately structured and less beholden to its narrative, the film is told in three parts, with each part pertaining to each of the three visits...

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Norte, The End of History

Norte, The End of History

A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending...

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A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

Andres Bonifacio y de Castro is considered to be one of the most influential proponents in the struggle against Spanish colonial rule in the...

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A Tale of Filipino Violence

A Tale of Filipino Violence

With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III...

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Season of the Devil

Season of the Devil

In the late 70s, a gang of militias, under the control of the military, terrorizes a remote village in the Philippines. The terror being inflicted...

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When the Waves Are Gone

When the Waves Are Gone

Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is at a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police forces, he is...

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Genus Pan

Genus Pan

Three illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the...

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Century of Birthing

Century of Birthing

An artist struggles to finish his work. A storyline about a cult plays in his head. Fundamentalism will destroy the world. The artist destroys his...

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Working Girls

Working Girls

Continuing the tradition of national artist Ishmael Bernal's benchmark film Working Girls after 25 years, Working Girls of 2010 depicts the role of...

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The Halt

The Halt

It is the year 2034 AD and Southeast Asia has been in the dark for the last three years, literally, because the sun hasn’t shone as a result of...

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Prologue to the Great Desaparecido

Prologue to the Great Desaparecido

Andrés Bonifacio, the freedom fighter known as the father of the Philippine revolution, was executed by rival revolutionaries in 1897. His wife...

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Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times

Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times

To this day, Ishmael Bernal's movie Himala is still in our town, in our world. This will be reflected in the broader perspective of the majority...

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An Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget

An Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget

Erwin Romulo, the late Alexis Tioseco’s best friend, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s untimely death in their...

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Phantosmia

Phantosmia

Hilarion Zabala has a mysterious, recurring olfactory problem. A counselor/psychiatrist suspects a lingering case of phantosmia, a phantom smell...

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The Day Before the End

The Day Before the End

In the year 2050, the Philippines braces for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage...

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Kawalan

Kawalan

Tomas, the old venerable mayor of the remote town of Kawalan, learns that the invading Japanese will set up a garrison there. He organizes willing...

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Florentina Hubaldo, CTE

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE

Florentina Hubaldo keeps repeating her story, orally, akin to a mantra, a meditation and a prayer; her way of remembering; her means of maintaining...

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Bingoleras

Bingoleras

Six single women and a priest's lives intersect when a bingo marathon is launched in their church for the barangay fiesta, turning expectations and...

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