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.
Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib Apostol finds himself looking for his best friend Tric Torres back in high school. Guided by a map his best friend made for him, Tib attempts to visit each place around his hometown to retrace memories of his friendship with Tric.
Four science high school students struggle to complete their capstone project—all while dealing with an oppressive principal, academic pressure, personal conflicts, and questions about identity.
In 2010, a group of high-school classmates reunite for a swimming trip, not knowing it’s the last one they’ll ever be fully together. A meditation on death and all things dying. A short film commissioned for the US video release of Cleaners.
Years of destruction to the rich, ancestral land, culture, and relationships in Nueva Vizcaya by a large-scale foreign mining company has divided the people, but has also summoned the collective strength of the mountains and the community to rise up. The Didipio community of Twali-Ifugao indigenous...
In the small town of Pagadian, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.
After discovering a hidden clause in his work insurance, CELSO, a factory worker, goes extreme and faces a life-altering decision, challenging reality to secure his family's future.
A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he still has the gift to make people laugh.
Ren, a gay college student, half-halfheartedly lets go of his activist suitor Lenny, believing that his rebel partner is still alive despite rumors that their group has been ambushed.
Luzonensis is a prehistoric hominid who is about to leave overseas to be a migrant worker. Hours before departing, he discovers that his passport is missing. Together with his father, they retrace their path to find it. Luzonensis ponders on who he is and his place in this country as their backs...
On unearthing the identity that we've buried in the efforts to level ourselves with cultures that are not our own: In the struggle to move forward, we’ve been misled into situations causing us to be pitted against one another, and ultimately we end up losing our land, our way of life, and our...
Nangungupahan follows the different lives of people who occupy a room of an apartment through different points in time. The room may mean differently to each occupant; and by overlapping these timelines, we gain insight about our shared space and history, as well as the bigger structures outside...
The narrator talks about leaving Manila to escape the pandemic, but she realizes that she cannot really get away from it. A person talks about being inside a quarantine facility after testing positive. Another person shares her fear of getting pregnant due to the lack of proper healthcare. The...
As the city of Zamboanga celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, a couple tries to survive to survive the drought that has been wrecking havoc on their flower farm and raise enough money for the wife's imminent childbirth. Meanwhile, a tragedy – which will be later be known as the 2013...
The news of Patricia’s sudden death disrupts the lives of her friends. After several years apart, they have to meet back together to pay their last respects to their dearly departed.
Amidst joblessness and a film grant at their disposal, two filmmakers buy an oven to have an alternate source of income during the global pandemic. Through a video diary format, the film tries to explore the oppressive limitations of home and the filmmakers' looming thoughts of migration from these...
