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In the underbelly of society, deep in the hidden crevices of a working-class neighborhood. We meet 5 characters trapped by their circumstances yet trying to escape.

A lonely and exhausted young woman caring for her ill father must make a difficult decision as his health rapidly declines.

Johnny is burdened with the desire to euthanize his terminally ill mother in order to relieve her.

On her ninth birthday, Nelly locks out her mother of their family home while she keeps posting Instagram stories that become more and more worrying.

Mary is slowly succumbing to dementia in a Sanatorium. She knows that her condition is irreversible and time is not on her side.

Sarah, 40, is a nurse at the Children’s Health Center in Halissa, a multi-ethnic and poverty neighborhood. For two years, Sarah tries to get pregnant. Her desire for a child is intertwined with the difficulties of a young mother until they reach an illusionary solution– the impossible gift of a baby.

A husband going through a divorce learns his ex-wife is pushing for full custody of their daughter. How far will he go to keep his family together?

A college graduate finds an old photo of his high school best friend, leading him on a journey to revisit their special place and reflect on their timeless bond.

A murder committed during Olympic horse jumping qualifications sends shockwaves through a tight-knit community and a journalist on a mission.

The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.

A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give her.

Different students from a high school cleaners group each deal with different pressures of being clean and pure while also discovering that the world is dirty and superficial to begin with.

It took a hundred queer years for Lola Perla to be finally recognized by a government that never really took notice of the likes of her. But that’s okay, because along with the president’s anti-climactic, and in many ways, almost insincere recognition is a fat envelope containing Php100,000 (USD$2,000). For Perla, this is more than enough money to transcend her idea of a lifetime legacy. Today is the day Lola Perla confronts her long-standing personal covenant: to bail an ex-lover’s son out of jail. Meeting fifty-someting Nanding transforms into a reunion, then, a communion of her present self, with an old love.

On a chilly Sunday morning, a man awakens to the mischievous stare of a unicorn that seems to have come straight out of his dreams. Carried along by an early morning sensuality, his fantasies transform his lonely apartment into a garden of delights, in which this young creature can freely reap the fruits of his desires.

A young environmentalist wakes, trapped, kidnapped in the elevator of a super high rise building at the mercy of her tormentors.

Born with both male and female genitals, but raised like a boy by his conservative family, Adam goes through all the things prepubescent boys go through, including a fascination with strange animals he takes for pets and being smitten by a lovely girl. His bucolic world turns upside down when he gets his first menstrual period setting him off on a journey that tests the spiritual and physical limits of sexual identity and into a new world of ambiguity and desire.

O centers on a funeral parlor intern and closet necrophiliac who starts pushing blood after she meets a vampire drug lord whose sister she falls in love with, complicating matters even more than they already are.

A 30-year old man who returns home to Manila is forced to confront his old life, his old friends, and his ex-boyfriend at their high school reunion where the drama of the past and the present collide.