Baka Búkas, Bukás Na (2022)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

Luna

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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.

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.

My Partner

Two high school boys from different social worlds experience romantic feelings for each other. Edmar, a high-performing Filipino student, and Pili, a Native Hawaiian student-athlete, learn that navigating self-growth and teenage love in Hawaiʻi is as complicated as their understanding and love for Hawaiʻi and it’s ever-changing cultural landscape.

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."

Espantaho

As a family clashes over their late father's land, an eerie painting appears and releases something sinister during the nine-day funeral ritual.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nurse Unseen

Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles from home.

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.

Three Days of Fish

Just as he does every year, dad flies from sunny Portugal for a three-day visit to the Netherlands, the drab country of his birth. He has his usual errands to run and he visits his doctor for his annual check-up, accompanied by his eccentric grown-up son…

(GONE WRONG)

A livestreamer gets more than he bargained for during a 'walking into random homes' prank he stages.

Wielka Warszawska

A story about a young jockey dreaming of a sports career. The culmination of these dreams is participation in the most important race in Poland - Great Warsaw Race. The main character - Krzysiek enters the horse racing world with the naivety of a novice and enthusiast. Only after some time does he realize that races are a network of dependencies, powerful interests and manipulation of results. The boy believes that he can change this, especially since the country is on the brink of great changes. The fall of communism gives hope that the future will only be better, and the rules clearer. However, in the world of corruption and dirty tricks, it is difficult to remain flawless. Will Krzysiek be able to resist big money and a fast career? How much is he willing to sacrifice to destroy the prevailing system?

Aussi loin que mon enfance

Italy, May 1969. A woman, her fiancé and two other revolutionaries are on their way to a demonstration in Rome. The trip is an opportunity for the young woman to look back on herself, her journey and her anxieties.

Naked Human Nature

Composed of three stories based on true events in real life. The theme is to examine human nature with alternative perspectives ── how the tortured, rejected and distorted souls, exposed to miserable circumstances, struggle to find a way-out. Marriage Sans Frontieres. When a transsexual becomes a homosexual. Born male, Terrence claims to have a female soul. After coming out, he breaks up with his girlfriend and behaves as a woman. Then she begins searching for love that transcends the borders between male & female. Sin World. A story based on a terrifying true event in Hong Kong. An adolescent decided to save his mother and sister, by killing them. Surprisingly, the murderer was unexpectedly calm with no regrets, and claimed that the world has too many sinners. CRY2. A girl was kidnapped by a man whose behavior resembles that of animal. Locked up in a warehouse, she became lunatic after being raped and tortured, her subconscious state deeply ruined as she can never escape in reality.

Arconada

Jon wants to be Arconada, the mythical goalkeeper of Real Sociedad, but is the substitute goalkeeper of the school soccer team.

Ippadai Vellum

Two men are wrongly arrested as being the accomplices of a most-wanted terrorist. How do they prove their innocence?

Oru Cinemakkaran

Alby, who is married to the girl he loves, Sara, against the will of both their families. While the couple leads a romantic life in a residential complex in Kochi, Alby, who is a passionate and hardworking filmmaker, begins to face financial liabilities. Being stressed, he soon gets involved in a thoughtless act and finds himself in an unpredictable situation. Alby's life then begins to go beyond his control.

Third Time

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...

Trágala, perro

Sister Patrocinio is a nun who is stigmatized by Christ in her hands and feet. Although some believe in this mystical fact, others suspect of manipulation and take it to the court of justice.