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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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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Storm Children, Book One

Storm Children, Book One

The Philippines is visited by an average of 20~28 strong typhoons and storms every year. It is the most storm-battered country in the world. Last...

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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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Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals, and Sashimi

Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals, and Sashimi

A slice-of-life documentary of the rubber plantation boys in Zamboanga Sibugay. It’s about boyhood journeys and life’s realities told in a...

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Notes from Unknown Maladies

Notes from Unknown Maladies

The filmmaker went back to his hometown to make a touching portrait of his sick grandmother. 94-year-old Concepcion has been suffering from nervous...

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Daughters of the Three Tailed Banner

Daughters of the Three Tailed Banner

A family is in ruins after the last male member dies. To salvage their future, the matriarch Kadiguia decides to look for a suitable husband for...

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The Ebb of Forgetting

The Ebb of Forgetting

Dream and memory of two sisters meet, as one grieves for the death of her sister while the other tries to let go of her memories.

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On Endings

On Endings

Filmmaker’s intimate statement from isolation, in which he reads letters from a mother longing for her son, whom she has not seen for four years.

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Santelmo

Santelmo

Encyclopaedias describe St. Elmo's fire as a harmless meteorological phenomenon caused by a strong static discharge. In Philippine mythology, a...

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