Five lives. One city. In the heart of Manila, their stories intertwine through desire, heartbreak, and the rawness of life.
A former bar entertainer now lives a quiet life with her husband - until he loses his job. To survive, she returns to the world of adult entertainment, entering a voyeuristic club where everything slowly begins to fall apart.
Closer to Home weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. She's hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and, ultimately, a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own. A powerful, controversial film that quietly builds to a shattering collision of aspirations and cultures.
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family goes to extreme and absurd lengths to hide the truth.
A young Filipino girl struggles to hide her sexuality from her Catholic mother after rumors begin to circulate about her throughout their community.
Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles from home.
A young man from the banks of the Ibar River goes to the revolutionary war. It turns out to be one of the key moments that will later leave marks on his life. The war conflict runs along with his intimate, internal conflicts of his own. He feels the need to think as a human being despite the horrors surrounding him. Such is the deeply embedded need of this man - the need for love, understanding and justice.
In an age of 'it's complicated', what defines a relationship? How do Chelsea and Danny, two naive college freshman navigate their insecurities, the pressure of masculinity, and the trials and tribulations of the uncharted waters of independence and romance.
Three strangers, who were cheated by a three-member fraud gang, hatch plan to take revenge on their leader, and go to his home around same time. All of them get the shock of their life when they find someone murdered at the home.
After being framed for drug smuggling and imprisoned in Mainland China, Yukari’s character faces a death sentence after an escape attempt. She is befriended in prison by Clare Wai’s character, and a mission to rescue her is launched from HK. Although the team initially succeeds by impersonating Mainland police, the escape plan misfires and they must flee on foot to the border, fighting a series of battles with the pursuing militia.
Identical twin brothers become hybrid A.I (artificial intelligence) entities, yet torn in different directions to achieve justice for humanity.
A heartbroken young man addicted to an enhanced dream pill is forced to recover the wreckage of his reality when his supply of the drug runs out.