Essential Truths of the Lake
Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran continues...
See moreFrom 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...
See moreElegy 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...
See moreNorte, 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...
See moreA 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...
See moreA Tale of Filipino Violence
With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III...
See moreSeason 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...
See moreWhen 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...
See moreGenus Pan
Three illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the...
See moreCentury 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...
See moreWorking 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...
See moreThe 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...
See morePrologue 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...
See moreHimala: 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...
See moreAn 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...
See morePhantosmia
Hilarion Zabala has a mysterious, recurring olfactory problem. A counselor/psychiatrist suspects a lingering case of phantosmia, a phantom smell...
See moreThe 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...
See moreKawalan
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...
See moreFlorentina 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...
See moreBingoleras
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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