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A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile...

A lonely, introverted girl faces mysterious encounters during her high school class’ religious retreat trip.

A timid teenage boy falls into a hollow void with people who constantly ridicule him. He tries to escape confrontation but seems to be stuck in his...

Before graduating, high school sweethearts Ralph and Angelo face their final test: the rise of AI, love in turmoil, and the choices that could define...

An overheard imitative playing of a tarot reading forces Tasha to confront all her suppressed life tensions in an overnight house...

An ambitious dancer hallucinates her other self while practicing the piece.

A film by Fea Fortuna

Coming back home after thirteen years, a 16 year old is forced to remember what little she knows of home when her mother decides to run away. In a...

The Reyes family prepares to take a family portrait.

Ling is in her last year in elementary school. One school day, her botanist father fails to pick her up and doesn't return home from fieldwork....

Two girls, both desperate to be understood, navigate the push and pull of a single night after one of them overdoses on antipsychotics. They spend...

During the course of one night, a young journalist is set to finish his investigative report that will expose the private army of an influential...

A local barbershop will be closing soon after serving for 28 years. Rey, the barber, has decided to open his shop for one last time. His last day...

Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by...

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,...

Years of destruction to the rich, ancestral land, culture, and relationships in Nueva Vizcaya by a large-scale foreign mining company has divided the...

After being forced out of school, Kokoy, 20, finally finds hope after landing a job interview. Little does he know that he is living a real-life loop...

Ace, a closeted gay guy, learns Judo in a class full of straight men, channeling his inner Mulan.

The film is an exploration of the queer body’s struggle to attain validation and evade exploitation. In a society where queer identities have...

Estranged friends Kia and Maria face an unexpected reunion in the chapel of their old all-girls' Catholic school, where they are forced to redress...