When a Filipino teen is found fatally shot on the streets of New Jersey, the investigation into his death reveals the struggles of the Filipino-American community, including the horrifying effects of methamphetamine on its youth.
Bela, a first-generation Filipina immigrant, must face her parents' prejudice regarding her sexual orientation.
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.
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.
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.
A coming-of-age story of two children whose lives and friendship are shaped by the festival and their devotion to the patroness of Jaro district in Iloilo City.
When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family goes to extreme and absurd lengths to hide the truth.
Two cousins rediscover the mysteries of their missing aunt's golden teapot.
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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.
The diaspora of Filipinos around the globe is driven mostly by the economics of supply and demand. The yearning for something better, stability, and self-validation leads a handful of sojourners from the provinces of the Philippines into the arms of one of its former colonial masters — the USA. But what happens when they finally get what they want? And how? Filmmaker Dennis Empalmado explores the musings of Filipino expatriates and hopeful immigrants in "Naglalakbay" (Travelers).
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.
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.
Against the backdrop of a dying Tacloban, an underqualified teenager struggles to secure employment in a ruthless city that has no place for him. Worse still, he discovers that a rising artificial intelligence program threatens to steal all the work reserved for man. In his search for meaning for himself and for the city he calls home, he finds out a cosmic entity has been quietly watching him.
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.
While celebrating their last night together, high school graduates and best friends Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali. When they discover that the memories of their entire friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa must race to find a way to leave the island before they forget each other forever.
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…
As Manila empties out for the holidays, a chance encounter at a Simbang Gabi unites two classmates, Keith and Chrip—one fleeing his personal conflicts, the other eagerly waiting for his father’s return from abroad. They share a single night to get to know each other further, and to exchange their differing emotions for the Christmas season.
A Filipino mother's obsession with her teenaged son becoming famous turns into delusion when she sneaks into his play rehearsal.
A father returns home to help his son and ex-wife move into her new partner's home.