Baka Búkas, Bukás Na (2022)

Kalakalaro

Benok, robbed off his childhood, had to work due to poverty. While his mother spends time on gambling. In his eyes, the world has changed where children work and adults play. Benok finds his way to experience how to become a real kid again.

Tonight, You Will Shine!

A Filipino mother's obsession with her teenaged son becoming famous turns into delusion when she sneaks into his play rehearsal.

Luna

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Bata, Batak Ka Pa

A young boy's innocence is slowly deprived by digital overstimulation and the War on Drugs. Surrounded by a world of vices, his future becomes uncertain when he learns the truth about the people around him.

Before

In a hidden paradise somewhere in the Philippines, two brothers share a simple but sufficient life. Things change when an unexpected visitor brings a new-found attention to their island home. With their idyllic island now on the tourism spotlight, they're now forced to cope with the perils of uncontrolled urbanization.

Dumula ng Isa, Dalawa, Tatlo...

A theater group begins their rehearsal on a play about a witness' account of a massacre eventually leading to a confrontation and inner conflicts of the actors portraying their roles.

The One-Armed Executioner

An Interpol agent is out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride. This tragedy left him deeply depressed, and his battle with depression has to be won first before he can be thoroughly trained in martial arts. After his training, Ortega hunts down his adversaries for a final reckoning.

OTEP The Dreamer

Embarking on a remarkable journey, Otep, a 16-year-old high school boy, faces a challenging narrative of education. It is where resources are as scarce as they are essential: as simple as a paper to write on and a pento write with. Realizing that his brother’s efforts in yielding meager wages will not make the cut in reaching for his dreams, Otep makes it his compass, resolving to carve his own destiny.

Little One

A pregnant mother, unsure of how to raise a child, arranges an interview with her two gay dads but fate intervenes when his dad suffers a heart attack. Her dad reflects on their family's history, captured on an old camcorder.

Lurch

Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lurch…

Firefly

The film follows an old man who looks back on a fleeting love that illuminated his life, only for it to vanish without a trace.

Ilo Ilo

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

VS

Set in 1992, a Filipino kid working at his father’s liquor store seeks community through the arcade game Street Fighter II, but finds himself clashing with a local bully.

Awit Natin (Our Song)

When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family goes to extreme and absurd lengths to hide the truth.

The Tale of a Rainbow Fish

When a group of elementary students chose to tell a local folklore Alamat ng Isdang Kulay Bahaghari for a stage play, their curiosity brought them investigating the river to search for the infamous fish, only to discover that the folklore is not what they were taught of.

The Last Jeepney Ride

A group of campus journalists joined a jeepney modernization protest to cover a story. Unbeknownst to them, they would soon be the subjects of the story they were set out to cover.

Dayuhan

A surgery to finally fit in a literally new world bears a heavy risk, pushing an alien immigrant to make last-minute precautionary measures on the day of his surgery.

Easter Sunday

Comedian and actor Joe Valencia returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to the Filipino-American community.

Scarecrow

During the nine days vigil (pasiyam) and wake (paglalamay) at the Lazatin-Henson-Katigbak Mansion, food and drinks are served. Narrative sequences from Monet and Rosa's mourning of patriarch Pabling where a horrifying secrecy and an evil death plot surface, even during the funeral procession, carrying of the hearse and entombment in the Catholic cemetery.

BINI Chapter 1: Born to Win

The nation's girl group BINI truly lives up to their name, taking the country by storm. Follow their journey from humble beginnings to massive success in "Bini Chapter 1: Born To Win."

A Cycle of Cloud and Rain

An anthropomorphic cloud shares how it achieves small wins in this natural cycle of life, one that dwells on the commonality that suggests “mga ulap tayong nagiging ulan".

PLANT BOY

A teenager is resurrected as a plant-headed zombie, searching to find his past happiness and humanity. How long will it all last though, knowing that life may change again when the sun goes away?

MANANG

Two cousins rediscover the mysteries of their missing aunt's golden teapot.

i am the king of japan

Weeks after his last journey through South Korea, Gyan Lumo is now taking on his next assignment. Becoming the next king of Japan. Experiencing all the thrills and frills of modern Japan, from gacha, to theme parks, and back to gacha (he's addicted), how will he overcome these distractions to achieve his main goal.

gyan lumo takes over south korea

Filmed pre-martial law in South Korea, a Filipino immigrant, who's grown up in a Kiwi environment is thrust into a whole new continent. Making his way around the incredible country of South Korea, he has to overcome many challenges. And to make sure he makes the most out of it... he must take over South Korea.

A Thousand Forests

Five teenagers join the prestigious Philippine Forest Camp for a chance to travel the world. As they navigate this journey, they unearth far more than exotic landscapes.

Até a Noite Terminar

Tom and Alice decide to strengthen their marriage in a romantic cottage, but the road holds surprises and they will depend on the help of the mysterious Senhora H. As the night goes on, the secrets of this marriage are revealed and the only hope of survival for the couple will be to embrace their own madness.

Studio 210

When Miles enters Camille's art studio, he is drawn in by her creative productivity, the languid sensuality of her long days, and the coherence of the worlds in her paintings. As the summer unfolds, an intense intimacy builds in studio 210.

Take the Night

When a resentful brother organizes a prank kidnapping, he unwittingly hires career criminals who have plans of their own.

Uptown Lady: Days of Eros

A young wife of a blind older man undergoes strict and abusive training in his Geisha dance school. She had married her teacher after he was struck blind at the shock of his first wife’s death. The son from the first marriage, who fled the house after his mother died, returns and begins to pursue his step-mother. Will she succumb to his passionate advances or will she continue with her craft within a loveless marriage?

The River That Carries Us Along

Following a bet, Simon has no choice but to participate in the Morat-Fribourg race. The preparation and the race itself reveal painful memories that have been buried for far too long.

Deadly Love Poem

Words of poetry spell certain death when a young woman grows increasingly distraught after a string of unusual murders take place.

The Replacement

A disillusioned college employee and aspiring writer discovers a woman virtually identical to herself in a press article about the winner of a prestigious prize.

Lola Mora

The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.

La maestra normal

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Underworld's Flower

Short film about modern Hades and Persephone’s myth.

Quereme así (Piantao)

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A Glimpse

A blossoming relationship unfolds when two strangers have a chance encounter in a London cafe.

A Harp in Hock

A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.

Cynthia

A dinner party with old friends takes a shocking turn as wounds are exposed, revelations are made, and the past resurfaces. Over one tense evening, Cynthia learns that some things can never be unsaid.