A woman with falling hair, anxious about her online work, a child unable to leave her room in a power outage, and a yoga buff with body issues, all encounter an unseen terror while alone in their urban middle-class homes during the nationwide quarantine.
A young entrepreneur meets a group of coffee farmers and finds the inspiration to continue despite the pandemic.
In transit, Carlo reminisces the blissful memories of his beloved mother, Joy, who died a few months ago while the country was in lockdown facing a worldwide pandemic. As he returns to his hometown Pampanga to reunite with his family, he will be facing a first birthday without his mother.
A Manobo tribe flees from fear only to find themselves in another dreadful situation: a lockdown due to the pandemic.
It’s December 2020, more than nine months of community quarantine in the Philippines. The idea of nothingness is actual and symbolic. With imposed restrictions in the physical world, how can we tell our personal and collective stories of living under the “longest COVID-19 lockdown in the world”? Confined at home, physical and non-physical boundaries are magnified as the filmmaker attempts to articulate existence through floating in time and space.
A tribute to the people that we fear to lose, and for the ones that we have lost. It is a story about the fear that we have to face as the new normal.
The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).
The night before the lockdown, while reviewing some unused footages from my latest film project (Hinulid), a small box from an anonymous sender arrives. The box contains a Bikol translation of the Tagalog long poem, Ibong Adarna, and an egg.
Filming in a Time of Uncertainty is a short documentary film that follows a small team of filmmakers, who are based in the region in Mindanao, as they struggle to shoot a film amidst the trying times of the pandemic. And how they were able to comply with the community's minimum health guidelines, while observing the basic health care, in spite of the intricacies of the film industry’s standard health protocols.
A filmmaker’s reflection about his life during the pandemic, as "the flames are climbing up the wall."
As the global pandemic affects more than half the world, the Family Chan tries to cope with the seemingly permanent quarantine and the claustrophobic circumstance of being together.
In a period beset by a plague, the visionary’s portal to his soul has been thwarted by the four corners of his abode. With imagination as the only detour, the drifting of thoughts is inevitable. Amidst the overcast, the curtain opens to the apparent truth – truth that no frame can impede a visionary.
In times of necessary physical distancing, ten couples from the filmmaker’s hometown allow the cameras into their homes not to disturb but capture any delicate exchange.
Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
It tells the story of Roberto Parra Sandoval, creator of the cueca chora and chronicler of Buenos Aires' bohemian scene. A guide boy and stowaway on freight trains, he forges a life in the brothels and bars of Valparaíso and Santiago, bringing the music of the working-class neighborhoods to life. His world changes radically when he meets Negra Ester, a fascinating and contradictory woman who plunges him into a passionate and heartbreaking love. Together they will experience a story that beats to the rhythm of the cueca brava, amid laughter, hurt, and disappointment, in the heart of a marginal, luminous, and painful Chile.
A theatrical edit of episodes of 3 to 6 of TV Anime Summer Pockets, following Kamome Kushima's storyline from the anime series. Kamome, who once visited Torishiro Island as a child, reveals that her purpose in coming to the island is to "search for treasure" and thus sets off on an adventure with Hairi. What is the treasure hidden on the island? And what is the past that connects the two of them?
A theatrical edit of episodes 7-10 of the TV Anime Summer Pockets
Estridor
A small-scale farmer, the only daughter caring for her aging mother and the family land, has her quiet life upended when a mysterious crop circle appears in her field. The phenomenon brings her estranged sister and brother back into her world, forcing them to confront the emotional distance that has grown between them.