Esoterica: Manila

Long Yang is a strategist, martial artist, diplomat, and the first ever male paramour of all Chinese history. Living in the warring states period of ancient China–– a time of turbulence and uncertainty––he manages to gain the favor of Ji Yu, the King of Wei. A series of magical events bring the lord and his servant together as lovers, but dangerous conspiracies within the harem are lurking to destroy their romance……

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.

A young woman works as a secretary for a high class escort service, and is drawn into the intrigues of a client and the man who has fallen in love with her.

Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without either of them knowing about it they both have a relationship with Benjamin. When Mary finds out she’s pregnant, things get difficult.

Set during World War II, Rosario, a school teacher, enters a forbidden relationship with a Japanese soldier, Masugi.

When Narcing brings home his wife Puring to their hometown Mulawin in the 1930s, it sets off a series of events that include parricide, infidelity, betrayal, guilt and redemption.

EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another. The present leader KULOG NEGRO has led the country to progress; his rallying call is championing poverty for the benefit of tourists and film festivals. But the well-meaning leader is a mere puppet in the political arena and someone has just decided that he has to go.

Their love feels solid—until an old friend reappears and Ootani starts wondering if he’s really the one Tachibana wants.

A forty-five-year-old history teacher, Jin-tae, has hallucinations about one of his students.

Intentional start, love 'non-intentional!' A trust-recovering, heart-thumping romance drama that tells the story of two men who fall in real love after a relationship that started out as a lie.

A young man struggling to support his family enters the world of multilevel marketing.

A subtle and brilliant sexual awakening of a boy, who is torn between following his wishes or away from them, even though the world that opens before it is too powerful to be ignored in this way.

A whirlwind romance blossoms between Ginny, an architecture student, and Marco, a professor at her university. Over the course of a decade, dreams get bigger and circumstance brings them apart… yet against all odds, they find each other again—will they make the most of this second chance?

This is a coming-of-age story set in a closed-off rural area in the Heisei era, depicting the summer spent by Mishima Futoshi, who has just realized his identity, and the boys around him. Mishima, who was bullied by his classmate Kirino Makoto, made it a daily habit to secretly apply lipstick and wear women's clothes. One day, he witnesses Kirino trying to apply lipstick to his lips that he had lost.

Felix is a friendless achiever in high school whose life changes after the arrival of the half-American Snyder brothers, entangling him in their dark ambitions.

In the world of semi-pro basketball, a beautiful bookie recruits a naïve but promising player to the underworld of game-fixing.

An ex-convict who is ostracized by his neighborhood. Little does he know that this neighborhood he once knew is set to awaken his past. Ishmael decided to come back home to find peace and solitude in a place familiar to him. But his dream of rebuilding his shattered past is shaken when a mysterious innocent girl ends up in his front yard. A powerful religious cult headed by an enigmatic leader known as the Ama, is running the town.

Ex-swimmer Kōhei, facing divorce, meets aspiring animator Yūtaka in Tokyo’s gay district. Their fiery attraction deepens amid emotional highs and lows.

Stories abound in Cebu about a woman rumored to be a murderous monster, but behind the myth is a mother seeking justice.