Medy, a make-up artist, was given the chance of a lifetime to accompany a concert star to the United States for a performance. She promised her family that she will return after a week.
The film tells the story of a tomboyish Ilocano lass from Ilocos Norte, Thelma (Maja Salvador) whose family is beset with challenges when she discovers her uncanny gift of speed. Her talent then opens doors for her – to elevate her family’s situation and change the course of her own life. But to do that she will have to run- against all obstacles, against personal hindrances, against shadows from her past, and against her own self-doubts. Will she ever accomplish her dream as a successful athlete?
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
A lifestyle photographer, a student activist, and a relationship that developed amidst contrasting ideals and principles.
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly cultured people are the ancestors of a dysfunctional third-generation family whose daughters tell their own stories of joy, struggle, and the complex realities in the life of Filipino Chinese families.
The film portrays the true stories of Filipinos, who, due to poverty in their country, are forced to go abroad to look for work, hoping they would find a better life.
Veronica lives a double life as a librarian during the day while secretly working as a disc jockey at night for the popular program. One day, Veronica receives a love letter from one her listeners who boldly professes his love for her and his desire to meet her personally. Will Veronica finally give in to love's call or will she once again cower away and retreat to her books and music.
A married couple decides to adopt a baby girl and raise her as their own, but internal family problems arise when the two are blessed with a biological child.
Jaime quits a syndicate led by Don Jose, gets imprisoned, and reunites with his brother Joey who takes his place as the new leader of Don Jose's henchmen.
A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
Eternity is an epic romance about a pair of star-crossed lovers Crisanto and Milagros and how true love transcends different lifetimes. In the face of family hostilities and atrocities, the two continue to fight for their love until the bitter end. Cholo and Maegan are two different people with different backgrounds, finding each other as if by fate. It's as if they've known each other all their lives! But the young lovers' romance is thwarted by their respective families' deep-rooted dislike for each other. Will history repeat itself? Or will love finally conquer all the odds this time around?
A popular urban legend about a woman "aswang" who cooked and ate her two children. The legend is popular in the Visayas and in Mindanao
A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.
A fifty-four-year old single mother lives in Manila. Each night she leaves home to carry out an unusual job.
A chronicle of the life of Jaro, the leader of a juvenile delinquent gang, depicting his rise from street urchin to outlaw anti-hero on the way to his inevitable end.
The Philippines is being geared up to be interconnected through a system called One Wired Nation (OWN). This would allow faster and easier access to information across the country, from the smallest barangay to Malacañang. With OWN, progress is inevitable, says Bert Javelo from Prime Connections, the company who won the contract to build and manage OWN. Bert promises instant service and progress to the country. But Pia Gorospe is not convinced and smells something wrong.
A librarian's husband and mother-in-law turn out to be psychotically abusive. When the husband mistakenly thinks he has killed her, he dumps her in a river, where she is saved by a fisherman. Desperate for money and in need of help to take revenge on her husband, she hooks up with a bank robber whom she falls in love with. Together, they return to her husband's home and kill him.
A story about Fred a kid janitor that substitutes for his mother who has kidney disease. Fred listens from outside the classroom of Ma’m Ami, hoping to give his mother a better life in the future.
A frustrated, ambitious, self-centered and narcissistic filmmaker named Hapi has finally finished writing the screenplay of his first ever indie film which he believes is a masterpiece. Overeager, he enlists the help of his best friends, the comical Caloy and the voice of reason, Onyok, to make his dream movie. The only problem is, they have no budget to produce it.Residing in a poverty stricken community that is highly dependent on the Indian 5-6 cash loan system, which includes his own sister Rowena, Hapi, out of desperation, finally resorts to borrowing money from the community’s main Indian lender, Alfajor. However, things become worse for Hapi when his nemesis, the neighborhood midget thug named Oblax, steals his borrowed money. Deep in debt, burdened by his father, his dream movie project put on hold, and a seemingly bleak future with his current love interest, Cherry.
A wandering peddler suddenly decides to separates from his group of travellers, his reasons are unknown and the dangers will be many.