Ang Sugarol (2016)

Tanging Yaman

Three siblings Danny, Art and Grace are now well settled with their respective families, in widely contrasting lifestyles. The one common thing that binds them loosely together is the love that their mother Dolores "Loleng" Rosales holds for all of them and her grandchildren, albeit expressed in varying ways and degrees, but always equally nurturing and self-giving. Much as they are held together by her, they are in turn separated by physical distance and the sad legacy left behind by their deceased, erstwhile strong-willed, patriarchal father.

Plus. Minus.

Told in reverse chronological order, an aspiring drag queen creates a world out of desolated motel rooms with the guy he met online.

Ned's Project

An itinerant tattoo artist joins a talent reality show for lesbians in the hopes of winning the prize money that will enable her to get artificially inseminated and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a mother.

In Case They Don't Arrive

A series of mysterious hand-illustrated postcards take a young woman on a journey throughout the Philippines in search of its anonymous writer.

Kahit Wala Ka Na

A story about a separated woman and the challenges she encounters when she faces the real world alone with her son.

Iadya Mo Kami

Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own personal salvation.

Hati Tayo Sa Magdamag

Gerry and Rochelle are childhood sweethearts. Although Rochelle wants to settle down, Gerry wants his ambitions fulfilled first. The couple's relationship is threatened by the arrival of their childhood friend Tonette. Tonette seduces Gerry away from Rochelle by giving him a job, an apartment and herself. She agrees to share him with Rochelle at the same time hiring Rochelle as a maid. Things soon come to a head when Rochelle decides to leave Tonette's household after repeated attempts by Tonette's father, Don Teofilo, to defile her.

Init sa Magdamag

About a woman who changes personality to please the man she's with, and about the man who brings her sexuality to full bloom.

Kisapmata

A retired police sergeant has an unnatural stranglehold over his wife and daughter. His claustrophobically enclosed world is threatened when his daughter Mila finds herself pregnant and was forced to marry Noel. He attempts to extend his influence over his son-in-law, who resists; there is a confrontation.

Unlike Father, Unlike Son

A macho dad learns to accept the real identity of his gay son before it gets too late.

Essential Truths of the Lake

Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran continues his struggle to find a resolution to a 15-year-old case around a volcanic ash-laden landscape and an impenetrable lake.

Three Faces of Love

Three stories of love starring Sharon Cuneta. The first, "I Love You, Moo-Moo" (directed by Leroy Salvador), is about a young bride who died on her honeymoon; the second, "Ang Silid" (directed by Lino Brocka) is about an interior decorator who investigates a forbidden room owned by a mysterious woman whose sister was murdered; and the third, "Katumbas ng Kahapon" (directed by Emmanuel Borlaza) follows a young woman torn between her abusive husband and her former lover who returned from the US.

Manila

Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.

Ang Kabit Ni Mrs. Montero

A erotic drama chronicles the amorous exploits of a winsome young bride. When her affluent but crippled spouse fails to fulfill her physical desires, she seeks sexual satisfaction outside her marriage by taking a lover. Sunshine Cruz delivers a standout performance in a supporting role.

Diablo

Every night, Nana Lusing lies on her bed sleepless because she sees a dark figure looming in her room. Who is this shadow? Is this the devil? Her late husband? A manifestation of her anxieties? Or simply a figment of her imagination?

Naked Under the Moon

A young woman recalls how her father (a fallen priest), her mother (a woman with a secret past) and her teenage sister returned with her to live in their ancestral home after the family business failed. She was plagued with mysterious problems of sleepwalking and began a romance with a young man who tried to cure her.

West Side Avenue

A Filipino teenager is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out not only more about him but about the community of Filipinos in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug "shabu" on its youth. The detective who handles the case also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past.

The Imminent Immanent

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

Padre de Familia

Noel who has to assume the responsibility of being the breadwinner of the family after his father went missing.

The Ashen River of Remembrance

The Spanish colonization of the Philippines is in its infancy. Somewhere in a small village in the province of Cagayan, the townsfolk believe a young lady named Pinang was being possessed by an evil spirit. Pinang's parents have unwavering faith that Father Vacion's rituals and mumblings would cure their daughter of her supposed affliction. Soleng, Pinang's dear friend, thought otherwise.

Elemento

A young boy comes back from a field trip in the woods with something inside him. His mother must resort to supernatural means to save her son and herself.

Air Force

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Whistleblower

Inspired by the much-publicized travails of Benhur Luy and Janet Lim Napoles, the film opens with a police operation that leads to the recovery of a certain Zeny Roblado who has been unduly detained by her boss Lorna Valera. From there, Zeny spills whatever she knows of Lorna's shady operations to Teresa, a journalist.

Just the 3 of Us

An unlikely love story between polar opposites Uno and CJ two strangers, and how one night changes their lives forever. Unforeseen circumstances collide and force Uno and CJ to live under the same roof as they both deal with their sense of responsibility and their yearning for security. Uno is motivated by his sense of family while CJ is governed by an unconditional love that should put her first above everything else. The unlikely thing that binds Uno and CJ together paves the way for them to find in each other the kind of love they never thought they needed.