OFW the Movie

A hardworking and loyal OFW, a chef from Dubai, returns home hoping to pursue his dream of owning his restaurant and starting his own life. However, he finds himself at odds with his family and their toxic tendencies, making him question “Where does sacrifice end and selfishness begin?"

Sarah Gonzales, a grade school English teacher, joins the 150,000 Pinoy OFWs working in the United Kingdom to support her husband, Teddy Gonzales, in making a better living for their family. More than just a chronicle of the Filipinos experience working as nurses and caregivers in the UK, this story also charts Sarah's journey to self-discovery from a submissive wife who makes sacrifices for her husband's aspirations to an empowered woman who finds dignity and pride in a humbling job as a caregiver in London.

Summoning his younger brother Andrew to the city of Dubai, the financially stable Raffy, a Filipino citizen who's spent several years overseas, hopes his sibling can find work so that they can finally move to Canada. Unfortunately, Raffy doesn't expect Andrew to fall in love with his ex-girlfriend, Faye, a woman Raffy, in fact, still cares for very much.

A woman returns to the Philippines after working abroad to find that her family has fallen apart in her absence.

When Bambi discovers that her family has squandered their savings, they devise a plan to cover their debts — but first, she must fake her death.

Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation?

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

This is the story of Marie, an OFW in Italy who reflects the lives of most of the Filipinos living in Italy, the real life behind the sacrifices and efforts our countrymen is facing being a Filipino abroad. It also tells a story of how Filipinos are treated and known from this part of the world. An AI generated character perhaps but her life experiences and story is very real to Filipinos living on that country.

From the inside of a balikbayan box, a daughter plays a video game system gifted to her by her father. She recalls the days before her father went overseas due to the lack of stable and livable employment and the ongoing drug war in the country. A meditation on parental bonds and the OFW experience from a child’s perspective.

Janno, the filmmaker, captures mundane but distanced moments at home with his retired OFW father, Michael. As the father-son attempt to rekindle their veiled relationship, years of pent-up sentiment gushes out, revealing the key to their long-awaited reconnection.

The Philippines has one of the biggest diaspora of overseas workers in the world. The term Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) is well-known due to this. While the media has always acknowledged the big sacrifices that OFWs make in order to provide for their children an opportunity to live a better life than what they were given, no one talks about the perspective of the children who are left behind, having to grow up and face life without the presence of their parents. This film features Joanna, a Filipina in her mid-20s who has little to no connection left with her OFW mother. As she faces adulthood, she must decide if she wants to let go of her past. Bahay-Bahayan follows Joanna as she reels back to her past through memory and nostalgia.

The story of a man who sets out on his motorcycle from Italy on a trip to the Spanish desert to find himself there. But the encounter with the young Maryam changes the plans of the adventure sustainable.

Moma is a hobo and suffers from depression. Ema is a hobo and had been treated for alcoholism. Moma lives in the abandoned factory premises. Ema lives in the shaft. Moma liked Ema at first sight. Ema liked Moma at second sight.

Cheng Xiaoyu's parents are divorced, and in the eyes of her classmates she is a problem teen. Influenced by her parents and oppressed by social reality, Cheng Xiaoyu neither believes in family affection, nor in friendship, nor in love. She gave up her pursuit of the future and indulged herself, often going to game venues, hotels, discotheques. Wearing famous brands, smoking, drinking, worshiping money, skipping classes, fighting, going to nightclubs, playing with men, and basically doing all the bad things that can be done when young, in the eyes of her and her sisters, their own responsibility is to give up responsibility. Pubescence is a 2011 Chinese teen sex comedy film directed and written by Guan Xiaojie, starring Zhao Yihuan and Wang Yi. It is the first film in the Pubescence theatrical series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels: Paradise Lost, Pubescence 3, and Pubescence 4.

A troubled psychiatrist goes in search of five schizophrenics who have escaped from a local mental institution. Infiltrating their makeshift mountain outpost, the doctor comes face to face with his own fears, limitations, and forsaken hopes as he becomes acquainted with the patients and their humorously poignant struggles.

Just 10 minutes from the center of Madrid (but also from Rome, Paris, London ...), hundreds of hungry men meet in a fortuitous and secret way. Some are looking for quick and easy sex, others are trying to escape loneliness, most are looking for themselves ...

Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses.

Normandy, 1944. Private Wilson is on a mission in enemy territory. Hunted down and out of ammunition, Wilson suffers strange interferences, catapulting him into the violence and madness of war with an unexpected ending.

A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a client and discovers to her horror that he is none other than her father.

Passion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction