Albert Banzon

An assassin, a porn dubber and a transgender. Three souls. One explicit illusion. To find the ultimate joy in their empty lives. A safe haven, wher...

27 de jul. de 2013

O casamento instável de um jovem casal torna-se ainda mais caótico quando outra mulher entra em cena. Mas o que acontece quando as duas mulheres se...

25 de nov. de 2022

Ordinary People is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pi...

31 de ago. de 2016

Ace, 23, and Miko, 17, desperately want to become famous actors but it seems the Universe has a different plan for their lives.

02 de ago. de 2019

Drug-dealing and sex-starved goons mistakenly disturbs the peaceful lives of a frail witch and her grandchild in a remote town in the mountains.

14 de nov. de 2016

30 de nov. de 2010

An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and c...

17 de jul. de 2010

Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves stran...

09 de nov. de 2014

In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is revisited...

26 de jun. de 2024

Decades before the rise of liberalism in Spanish-era colonial Philippines, a young charismatic preacher leads a movement for equality and religious...

21 de set. de 2016

A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twen...

22 de jul. de 2016

Synopsis: Dagohoy plays a flute near a river when disrupted by an ethereal voice and the tragic news of his brother's death. Desperate for a prope...

18 de nov. de 2023

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs wh...

15 de ago. de 2018

Narcisa "Sisa" Dalangin is a young Filipina during the Spanish Occupation & is a childhood friend of Jose Rizal.

12 de jun. de 2008

In the near future, Manila is an almost-utopian city, but they still believe in ghost stories. Nobody survives the mysterious blackouts that happen...

02 de dez. de 2020

Adela, a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone b...

11 de jul. de 2008

A woman runs her criminal syndicate all the while taking care of her family.

30 de nov. de 2012

Impoverished, childless and living in a garbage dump, Miguel and Lina become instant celebrities when Lina miraculously becomes pregnant. But Lina ...

16 de jul. de 2011

Pastor Luis Aguila and his family are seemingly tested with their faith. Luis is an ex-convinct who is now the head of his church. Mildred, his wif...

12 de ago. de 2017

The Pinoy vampire - a bloodthirsty Aswang - stalks the streets of Quezon City in search of fresh victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of...

01 de jan. de 2006

A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a dru...

17 de jun. de 2009

A small-town midwife’s preparation for a job interview is disrupted by series of unfortunate turn of events.

02 de ago. de 2019

05 de abr. de 2019

Pinoi Rock & Rhythm sheds the spotlight on four obscure yet significant figures in contemporary Philippine Popular Culture. Rebel Disc Jockey Dante...

01 de jan. de 2003

Mikey is at the peak of his career as a chef, but to everyone's confusion, he remains single and unattached. Unbeknownst to them, beneath his manly...

19 de fev. de 2020

Life turns riveting for Nanong when the tabloid-format reality TV show, AKIN ANG KORONA chances upon his curious life in a sleepy seaside town in C...

04 de abr. de 2019

In the darker side of Manila-by-night, tribes of youthful gangsters roam the streets in search of quick fixes and precarious thrills. World-weary T...

20 de jul. de 2007

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a tod...

20 de out. de 2017

Raped and pregnant, an OFW rids herself of unwanted baggage on the flight back home.

05 de ago. de 2017

As a typhoon bears down on a sleepy rural town in the Philippines, strange events and even stranger behaviour foreshadow the watery catastrophe to ...

09 de set. de 2018

A man's friends hire a prostitute on his birthday for him to lose his virginity. But after finding out that she is a middle-aged woman, they decide...

15 de jul. de 2005

A story about three children struggling in a depressed neighborhood with their means of survival arriving from the package given to them by their p...

08 de ago. de 2007

A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the Bible and her father...

16 de ago. de 2013

Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest distric...

22 de mai. de 2008

Julian is a soldier stationed on a remote island in the Philippines. He has finished his three months of service on the island and is ready to leav...

21 de jul. de 2012

Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on nationa...

22 de set. de 2006

Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply layer...

20 de out. de 2008

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.

14 de out. de 2018

Girls are hidden in a dark room.

01 de jan. de 2007

The story of its namesake - the forcible transfer of 76000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in 1942.

26 de mai. de 2013

A half-black half-Filipino Michael Jordan wanna-be sets his way towards his “hoop dreams.”

21 de out. de 2018

Set at the inauguration of the new President is the inter-woven tales of people dealing with daily lives: their relationships, desires and their me...

11 de mai. de 2011

A documentarist’s son goes missing when she films a story on the disappearances of the firstborns in a remote island.

20 de out. de 2017

Paul is a restless twenty-something who cannot get his life together. Worse, he’s been holding on to his love towards Red, his best friend Ivan’s b...

26 de jun. de 2015

Mabuti accidentally finds a stash of money that could bring an end to her family’s financial problems: is the solution that simple or is it loaded ...

17 de set. de 2013

Mix-mastering history, the paranoid thriller, the documentary and the landscape film, pic tells of very different fates for two sets of brothers in...

20 de mar. de 2007

Orphaned brothers in the Southern Philippines stay with their relatives and take dangerous work.

15 de jul. de 2010

Three friends wait along Dalton Pass every dawn to jump at the back of rice delivery trucks to steal the goods and sell it at the wet market as the...

22 de abr. de 2016

Juan shared his food to a man. But the man wants more and steals his food while he was asleep.

05 de jan. de 2000

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

20 de mai. de 2021

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as w...

18 de ago. de 2006

Deaf dancing boy meets troubled rocker chick in a Baguio camp for Deaf and hearing kids where find that they have more in common with each other in...

18 de jul. de 2009

Amid legalized corruption, a son struggles to prove to his father that he is fit to survive in a dog-eat-dog society.

10 de nov. de 2015

A wounded activist ends up in a toilet and meets two members of the oppressed masses whose only reality is living on toilet fees.

22 de out. de 2002

Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the fil...

31 de jan. de 2005

Good fortune does a family more harm than benefit in this independent drama from author and filmmaker Mes de Guzman. Young Vergel left his family t...

10 de jul. de 2010

Two amateur ghost hunters are hired to surveil an alleged haunted house. Nothing much happens. But just because you can’t see the patterns of stran...

16 de out. de 2016

A group of gays is on a road trip in search for a beauty contest crown. Constantly losing in beauty contest in their city, five young cross-dresser...

28 de ago. de 2008

It’s not easy for ambition to survive in a place like Tondo, one of the poorest and roughest slums of Manila. But thirteen-year-old Chrisval de Cas...

05 de dez. de 2010

EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another. The...

01 de dez. de 2012

"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the ...

25 de jan. de 2008

"The social worker Aurora is kidnapped by a group of Moslem rebels who have lost their ideals and only plunder. In a military attack on the camp wh...

19 de jan. de 2009

Makoto of the Japanese Imperial Army decided to go into hiding after the Japanese soldiers were defeated in 1945. In the dread of the forest, he de...

17 de jul. de 2011

K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K. and ...

19 de jul. de 2006

A one-sided romance, from the gazer (JK Anicoche) and the subject of his gaze (Abner Delina), a sleeping man wearing a coat and a top hat.

01 de jan. de 2008

A small town in the Philippines is turned upside down by the arrival of a film crew that has everyone excited. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Lukas finds h...

25 de jan. de 2013

After years of imprisonment in the Middle East for a crime he did not commit, Lino finally returns to his small town. He hopes to relive his lost d...

25 de ago. de 2021

Consuelo, a ghost who has haunted Escolta for many years, finds a respite from her loneliness in Joey, a young man who has just died. As the two gh...

13 de out. de 2016

A documentary that examines the peculiarities of religion, labor, capital and gender all intersecting at a Catholic figurines factory in the Philip...

03 de nov. de 2023

Absurdist short comedy in the best camp and gore tradition. Little Ali has the handicap as a boxer that he keeps crying continually and heartrendin...

25 de jan. de 2005

Hiyas is an Philippine romantic-drama TV series aired by ABS-CBN that premiered on May 28, 2012 replacing Wako Wako on its Kapamilya Gold timeslot....