A 15-year-old A-student defies the views of her all-girls Catholic school as she confronts her feelings for a school nun.
A coming-of-age story of two children whose lives and friendship are shaped by the festival and their devotion to the patroness of Jaro district in Iloilo City.
In 2003, a 16-year-old Filipino kid from the inner city is forced to leave his old life behind for the terrifying new world of Santa Barbara, California.
Bela, a first-generation Filipina immigrant, must face her parents' prejudice regarding her sexual orientation.
A Filipino movie
Two old men, Jorge and James, hang out every day in a local coffee shop. As typical pensioned senior citizens, they laze around and talk to each other tirelessly inside the coffee shop with a habit of gossiping about the customers who enter, especially the young ones. One day, two young men enter the shop, which brings them to reminisce about their bittersweet past.
Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lurch…
An Interpol agent is out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride. This tragedy left him deeply depressed, and his battle with depression has to be won first before he can be thoroughly trained in martial arts. After his training, Ortega hunts down his adversaries for a final reckoning.
After the loss of her mother and her father’s sudden illness, Josie carries the weight of grief and responsibility alone, trapped in a job that’s slowly breaking her spirit. A tender family drama rooted in Filipino culture, SINIGANG looks at how small acts of love can lead to profound healing.
The film follows an old man who looks back on a fleeting love that illuminated his life, only for it to vanish without a trace.
The warm relationship between Mendel, an elderly Holocaust survivor, and his Filipino caretaker, Jose, is tested when Jose does not have a work permit and the police begin searching the neighborhood for illegal foreign workers.
The diaspora of Filipinos around the globe is driven mostly by the economics of supply and demand. The yearning for something better, stability, and self-validation leads a handful of sojourners from the provinces of the Philippines into the arms of one of its former colonial masters — the USA. But what happens when they finally get what they want? And how? Filmmaker Dennis Empalmado explores the musings of Filipino expatriates and hopeful immigrants in "Naglalakbay" (Travelers).
A pregnant mother, unsure of how to raise a child, arranges an interview with her two gay dads but fate intervenes when his dad suffers a heart attack. Her dad reflects on their family's history, captured on an old camcorder.
A true-to-life story of the miraculous Virgin of Our Lady of Solitude of Cavite City.
‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live.
Dado is loving and responsible husband. He also told stories to his loyal customers, Alas and Pablo the secret of his strong relationship with Isay and how to treat women correctly. Eventually, the origin of the saying "Kwentong Barbero" will unfold as Dado shares his love conquest tales.
Against the backdrop of a dying Tacloban, an underqualified teenager struggles to secure employment in a ruthless city that has no place for him. Worse still, he discovers that a rising artificial intelligence program threatens to steal all the work reserved for man. In his search for meaning for himself and for the city he calls home, he finds out a cosmic entity has been quietly watching him.
Set in 1992, a Filipino kid working at his father’s liquor store seeks community through the arcade game Street Fighter II, but finds himself clashing with a local bully.
When Jordan arrives to the wedding of her best friend (Charlotte), the consequences of a recent interaction they shared come into fruition - all with the background of Charlotte's chaotic Filipino family.
A Filipino immigrant struggles to maintain his façade of success in Vancouver when his family in Manila asks for a hard favour.