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- A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
- In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.
- Mariano Gomes, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora are three brave Filipino Catholic priests whose narrative is told in this stirring and inspirational historical drama.
- Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
- After inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.
- In Avenida, the lives of four men intertwine, searching for something. They all find what they are looking for in one woman named Aileen.
- Luis Carpio's life in Bangkok is disrupted when he's mistaken for adult film star Big Bird. Unable to convince others of the mix-up, Luis gets caught up in Big Bird's shady affairs.
- Paradise is upturned when 3 tons of cocaine wash up on the peaceful shores of a fishing village. Two local surfers must decide if the lure of a richer tomorrow is really worth risking family and freedom.
- Sonya, an old maid is about to give up on herself until one day, she meets a corpse in her family's embalming business that changes her life.
- Lt. Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad, being a witness to his institution's being a party to a murderous anti-drug campaign, which is spearheaded by no less than the president of the country, Rodrigo Duterte. The moment Duterte sat as the new president of the Philippines in the year 2016, his biggest act was launching his so-called war against drugs, shocking the world for its brutality and the ensuing human rights abuses. Extra-judicial killings attributed to drugs have become rampant and most of the crimes are connected to the police. The atrocities are corroding Lt. Papauran physically and spiritually. He suffers from severe psoriasis, a skin disease resulting from insidious anxiety. A dark past haunts him and it has eventually and literally come back for a reckoning, for a closure.
- A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give her.
- A story about a broken-hearted girl who meets a boy in a not so normal way. Together, they go to places and find out "where do broken hearts go?".
- A young man is groomed by his tyrannical father to take over the family business, a sinister motel that specializes in "taking care of" immigrants.
- A young and fearless doctor opens a clinic for a poor community in a remote village of the Phillipines. However, she disappears without a trace. Her husband, a poet and teacher seeks the truth of her vanishing.
- A troubled teen's plan to distance himself from crimes is foiled when a desperate need for money arises. With the other youngsters of the tenement, they try to rob a unit but soon discover horrors that are far worse than they could have imagined.
- Avid Paulo Avelino fan Jane meets her onscreen idol in less-than-ideal circumstances after stowing away in the back of his pickup truck, and the young stan finds out that he isn't quite the perfect man when nobody's watching.
- Faced with Philippine President Duterte's bloody murders and brazen lies, Lt. Hermes Papauran continues his struggle to find resolution to a 15-year-old case around a volcanic ash laden landscape and an impenetrable lake.
- Tia Madre is a horror film told by a hyper-imaginative 10-year old girl named Camille, whose mother transforms into something more sinister, violent, distant, and possibly not human.
- The death of a woman's estranged husband brought her and her family into a road that changes their lives forever.
- The search for the body of Andres Bonifacio.
- Water Lemon is set in the coastal town of Mauban, Quezon, where the mundane lives of a grieving widow, a socially handicapped genius, and a helpless grandfather interconnect to create bumps in their flatline lives.
- A 35-year-old former fighter and violinist devises a plan to blow up a movie theater, a gathering place for British NICA officials and the Dutch.
- A man endangers his own life after embezzling money from his boss to pay for his girlfriend's extensive cosmetic surgery which in her belief will give her the opportunity for a better life and self esteem.
- A student with a gift for words, Shantal uses her talent to woo her crush, her high school professor Daniel (Vin Abrenica), by secretly writing him poems and declarations of love. As they become close because of their love for literature, Daniel, recognizing her potential, urges her to pursue her dream of becoming an award-winning writer. Shantal's world is turned upside down when she confesses her feelings for Daniel and gets rejected at their graduation ball. In the present, Shantal navigates adulthood and struggles to pay for her bills by translating text books and subtitling porn - a far cry from her dream to write poetry and novels. Things go awry for Shantal when she experiences writer's block, unable to come up with a solid follow-up to her first successful romance pocket book. Will Shantal be able to find renewed faith in herself and write the stories she wants to tell? What lessons from her past will help her shape the future chapters of her life?
- The year is 1999. In a cold sleepy town in the Philippine mountains, Officer Sonny Cruz begins receiving mysterious voyeuristic videotapes of a missing woman who vanished three years prior. As he begins to investigate the tapes with his partner Officer Alice Lagaac, the two regular cops become entangled in a world of mystery, supernatural and the occult.
- In the near future, Manila is an almost-Utopian city where people disappear after being caught out in mysterious blackouts that happen in random parts of the city after midnight. Four friends who think it's all a hoax find themselves in the middle of one. They're about to find out what really lurks in the strange darkness. If they make it through the night.
- Divorced and exhausted, retired actress Moon Lee is offered the chance of a comeback as the lead of a do-your-own stunts martial arts film.
- Deep in the slums of Manila, a young boxer's life is changed forever when his father pressures him to cheat in a fight.
- Wandering alone in the forest, Samuel, the oldest of three siblings, stumbles into a mysterious cave that grants wishes. His wish to resurrect his dead mother comes with a price. Desperate, Samuel will do anything to give the cave what it wants, even if it's something sinister, just for his beloved mother.
- Emily, a woman in her early 40s, finds out that her husband has been having an affair. When her father dies and she is asked to bring his beloved car back to Cagayan to be given to an old family friend, she takes the 400-mile drive from Manila to Cagayan alone, and during this long, lonely drive she is faced with the truth of her family's situation. In this vulnerable moment she meets 20-something Vince, and the next thing she knows, she's in a hotel room having a one-night stand with him. Now she's at an unexpected crossroad: will she stay miserable where she is, or will she be brave and choose the uncertain future.
- Now Streaming is an anthology of stories spanning different genres - all set during the pandemic.
- With the deadly fraternity wars among Filipino youth as a starting point, "Kaptiran" becomes a cinematic essay about the filmmaker's hometown of Manila. Blurring fact and film together, it is a bleak, disjointed portrait of a disjointed city; a meditation on its social cancer.
- During a trip to the Philippines, middle-aged, Norwegian Lars has met Abigail - the Filipina he wants to share his life with, but does she share his plans?
- Gerardo Calagui's sophomore feature film is a story of three transgenders trying to find love, family and money in the chaotic red light district of Manila. Tuesday is looking for love, Amanda is searching for family, and Barbie... well, Barbie just can't stay away from trouble. Those Long Haired Nights follows the three transgender prostitutes and their pimp through their harried and unpredictable working hours in Manila's hotels, massage parlours, streets - and one lush visit to the country.
- In the wake of her husband's death, Chedeng, 66, decides to come out of the closet. Her best friend Apple, 63, beheads her live-in partner in a fit of rage. Bound by friendship, the two elderly women, together with the severed head placed inside a Louis Vuitton bag, set off an adventure to find Chedeng's ex-girlfriend.
- Three friends are in their quarter life crisis. Seeking adventure and thrills, they spend most of their weekend nights on brothels and night clubs. One night, an unexpected incident will change their lives permanently.
- An egomaniac Fil-Am boxer, a mission-bound prostitute, a drug dealer experimenting with time travel, and a social climber caught in a scandal travel to Cebu and show its seamy side.
- A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.
- A single mother of three has devoted her life working hard to provide for her family. Her sacrifice finally pays off as she sees the success of her children. Their peaceful life is shaken when his ex-husband returns, hoping to make up for lost time.
- Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination, and mysticism. One day, he is finally given the chance to open for the rock legend's concert, but he must do something neither of them has done before: write a love song.
- Swap takes us to the internal conflict of a young father, torn between solving a crime and committing another crime when one day his only son is kidnapped and the criminals demand him to steal another kid in exchange of his son's life.
- Noel and Liza need money to pay for their son Robert hospitalization. They resort to tricking a foreigner into helping them. Liza pretends to be his girlfriend, and Noel her brother. When the child gets well, they all move in to a new house. Two soap operas on TV serve as backdrop to their daily lives. The parallelism between TV show and reality is uncanny.
- 'Prologue To The Great Desaparecido' is an introduction to Lav Diaz's most important upcoming feature film, 'The Great Desaparecido', which questions Truth and History around Philippine Revolution and Independence. It had been 325 years that the Philippines was under Spanish rule when the Revolution, led by Andres Bonifacio, exploded on August 21, 1896. But on May 9, 1897, Bonifacio was charged with death sentence by rival revolutionaries led by Emilio Aguinaldo. Bonifacio's body has never been found. His wife, Gregoria De Jesus, searched for his body in the mountains for thirty days, calling for Andres and even spirits to help her find her husband.