Through a blend of archival photos and videos of OFW families, Paliparan delves into the lives of OFW families from the perspective of an OFW child. The visual imagery is paired with a personal essay that reflects on the experiences of an OFW child hoping for a brighter future.
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.
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
Janno reminisces on his life as a son of an overseas Filipino worker and documents his time with his father Michael, who had recently returned full-time back home after being overseas for so long.
A Tyrolean rifle regiment adopt a young baby girl they have rescued and she becomes the "Daughter of the Regiment". In 1811, as a full-grown woman she falls in love with one of the new recruits while the regiment battles French forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
The boys are victims of a sinister game where the girls pretend to go steady, then dumps them.
The account of a New England woman's life in Liberia from the mid-1970s to 1991.
Against the backdrop of an unfathomable megalopolis, in a story that follows the associative qualities of a dream logic, the protagonists quote from concepts of neo-liberal elitism, and a mix of religious delusions and hallucinations of the apocalypse. The film begins in a sacral space, where Randi, a figure that references Ayn Rand, transforms a parapsychological medium into two digital clouds and sends them on a journey through a megalopolis in full growth. There they materialize as two bodies, which go by the names of Mr. Freedom and Ms. Independence.
Surrounded by loneliness, Paan is searching for what she's doing in each days. Until she meets Nick, the guy next door who is an artist, he begins a conversation and they start to learn the meaning of life from each other. They finally discover the goal in their life and the love that will not be faded from their memories.
Brides to Be is an existential supernatural drama about love and the struggle to conquer hate.
Dreaming Lips
Jean's little sister, Mae, may be sick, but Jean is sick of it...Mae is a bully and gets everything she wants, including Jean's pennant flag.
American Hostage pulls back the curtains on a terrorist plot centered on a group of terrorists holding two American soldiers hostage on U.S. soil. They demand the release of all prisoners of Guantanamo Bay or they will kill the soldiers.
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
A small village in an island. Juyeon whose mom left her only cares about her best friend-Kyunghee. One day, a transfer student-Soyoung moves to her village and everything begins to be changed.
The film, based upon the life of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, caused some controversy as the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a notice to the producers calling for a ban of the movie.It was released in 2002. In the same year two other movies on Bhagat Singh were also released named '23d march 1931 Shaheed' and 'The Legend of Bhagat Singh'.
Janet is a young girl who arrives to New York attracted by the offers of a pseudo movie producer to make her a movie star. Soon enough, she finds out his true intentions.
Sharif and Fikri are suffering from the constant preoccupation of their wives. Sharif's wife works as a model, and Fikri's wife is busy giving private lessons. They help their single friend Ahmed rent an apartment under the guise of an import-export company to meet the girls. One of the workers ordered that apartment, and events escalate.
Bava lives in a lower middle class tenement in Triplicane, Chennai. He runs a water can business along with his friends. He also sings Gana songs in death ceremonies. During one such occasion he crosses swords with a local thug Mookuthi and gets a mobile phone while running for his life on the road. The owner of the mobile phone is the heroine and she wants it back. Bava’s repeated attempts to meet her and hand over the mobile fail due to various reasons and when he finally meets her with the mobile, he is brutally attacked by a group of goons and the mobile goes missing again.A local paid killer Radha is hired by a wealthy builder to kill Bava and snatch the phone from him. Whether Bava manages to escape the bid to kill him? What happen to the mobile phone and what is the reason behind the phone becoming a threat to his life? These questions are answered in the rest of the film.
Growing up on an estate filled with drugs, guns and football hooligans isn t easy for Justin. When he starts hanging out with a nasty gang headed by loud-mouthed drug dealer Kevin he is persuaded to beat up an innocent bystander just for kicks and starts to enjoy the hooligan lifestyle...