A 15-year-old A-student defies the views of her all-girls Catholic school as she confronts her feelings for a school nun.
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.
Benok, robbed off his childhood, had to work due to poverty. While his mother spends time on gambling. In his eyes, the world has changed where children work and adults play. Benok finds his way to experience how to become a real kid again.
Bela, a first-generation Filipina immigrant, must face her parents' prejudice regarding her sexual orientation.
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.
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.
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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.
A high-society woman (Fuentes) whose life is defined by her devotion to her family and her social standing meets a man of lower social origin (Garcia) who struggles with the pressures of her world.
Luna
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.
Two high school boys from different social worlds experience romantic feelings for each other. Edmar, a high-performing Filipino student, and Pili, a Native Hawaiian student-athlete, learn that navigating self-growth and teenage love in Hawaiʻi is as complicated as their understanding and love for Hawaiʻi and it’s ever-changing cultural landscape.
Follows the turbulent history of a young man and his complicated experiences with love. Years after his father’s suicide and reeling from a painful breakup, he’s forced to recollect his memories and heartache as he attempts to reconcile the love he’s lost with the love he once received.
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.
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…
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.
When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family goes to extreme and absurd lengths to hide the truth.
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.
‘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.