Angeli Bayani

Since the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, Metro Manila has been subjected to intermittent lockdowns with demeaning punishments. Despite the...

'History of the Underground' takes a hard and painful look at life during Martial Law with rare and recently unreleased footage from the era

After learning that a group of doctors were killed by super natural forces, father’s Salvador and Benedicto will have their faith tested when...

The Game of Juan’s Life explores two hours in the life of Juan Reyes, a live-sex performer at an underground gay bar, who has decided to leave...

Adela, a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by....

An artist struggles to finish his work. A storyline about a cult plays in his head. Fundamentalism will destroy the world. The artist destroys his...

Deep in the slums of Manila, a young boxer's life is changed forever when his father pressures him to cheat in a fight.

Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child...

A story about victims of summary executions. Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.

A Filipino poet hearkens back to his village after spending years in Europe. Horrified to discover that the community has been buried under...

For Ian, a room is a space for freedom and expression of his individuality. In his room, he is free to do as he pleases. In his room, there are no...

A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending...

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

A countryside dramedy (drama-comedy) that follows 14-year-old Diana and her younger brother who live by themselves after their mother went abroad and...

This is a sober and impartial study of homosexuality through the story of a middle-aged gay couturier and his attempts at keeping his dignity amidst...

Orphan Carding befriends Army Captain Samuel Corazon, who’s stationed in his town to root out the remaining Huk guerrillas. At the dance hall,...

Sarah is a nurse at a Public Maternity Hospital. The hospital is abuzz with pregnant mothers of all shapes and sizes in different stages of labor....

A Yakuza member seeking to lead a new life in Manila. A morbid turn of events brings Haruo (Jacky Woo) to the squalor of Manila. A prized asset of...

The silent witness to the life and love of Juanita. It is her sanctuary, the place where she creates dishes for her family, her friends, even enemies...

The tale of an activist’s journey during the turbulent years of Martial Law, until his capture in the mountains and the dark, nine years of...

A policewoman roams the city of Manila to fulfill her duties as a police patrol to look for her son.

Divina is preparing for her daughter Rowena's 13th birthday when she hears shocking news: her daughter has been attacked by a crocodile, her body...

Florencia, the matriarch of the Filipinas family, is in poor health, and Yolanda, the eldest of the Filipinas children, finds herself in the...

Single mother Nora lives with her daughter Sarah on a cardboard groundsheet and hammock tied to the undercarriage of a semitrailer in the parking lot...

Pieta follows Isaac who tries to navigate the outside world after spending years in jail for killing his father.

An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and...

A former movie actress went to jail for selling drugs.

Tackles the dynamics of the relationship of a husband with his wife and his lover -- and they all live together in one house.

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on...

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...

Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third...

The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is...

Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo spans a week in a life of seven individuals with interconnected narratives.

When a kidnapping goes wrong, a desperate father risks everything to save his daughter from the men who hold her captive.

A thriller about a never-ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm, and the woman caught in between.

A priest visits a small seaside town. Miling a former nun who now teaches catechism on the island thinks that father Emman is the priest she sent...

A college heartthrob meets a college newbie - a challenge, a tension, a discovery, and a love that will change everything between them.

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...

70-year-old Virginia shares the old ancestral house with Delia, her ever-loyal maid. Delia is marrying her long-time boyfriend, Rene, and tearfully...

Julian is a soldier stationed on a remote island in the Philippines. He has finished his three months of service on the island and is ready to leave,...

Mario and his brother Alonso become committed to fishing in a coral-reef in the southern Philippines. With many other children of different origin...

A story of two high school senior students who believes passing the UPCAT will help make their dreams of becoming successful come true.

This is the story of Visayans coming to the MetroManila area in search of greener pastures. Dodong Valderama, a jack-of-trades orphan, and Santo Nino...

A deaf child who dreams of attending school faces a series of rejections from his mother because of an unprecedented past.

Raped and pregnant, an OFW rids herself of unwanted baggage on the flight back home.

Jodilerks, a gas station attendant is on her last day of duty. The night is young…

Natoy, like any other child, finds joy and excitement in the simplest of things, especially in eating halo-halo filled with pink gelatin and red...

Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the groups leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy. As the two...

Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet...

In a pivotal stage of their youth, four exuberant college sophomores face personal challenges that will affect the rest of their lives.

A man gets a new look at life after losing his job and becoming a taxi driver.

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

Three generations of teachers. Three stories of dedication, struggle, and inspiration interweaved. Iah, Espie, and Gennie will prove that being an...

A Hyperlink Movie about the choices and actions of a diverse group of people and about the question if it is possible to change your destiny.

In this coming-of-age-film about self-love, Maya is a girl who has always held a pessimistic view of the rain, reminding her of failed love and other...

Fely is an elderly woman who finds second chance at youth after a visit to a mysterious photo studio.

During a trip to the Philippines, middle-aged Norwegian Lars has met the Filipina he wants to share his life with, but to his surprise she turns him...

Set against the drug wars in the Philippines, Maria's husband is murdered in mysterious circumstances and is left to fend for her three children in a...

Faced with a series of terrible incidents, the Dela Cruz family now has to make a decision that will alter the history of their family.

"The social worker Aurora is kidnapped by a group of Moslem rebels who have lost their ideals and only plunder. In a military attack on the camp...

The film begins in Frankfurt, where Lailani, now 65, awaits a plane to Manila. She is returning home to the Philippines for the first time in 30...

Dreaming of a brighter future for her family, a mother who works as a domestic helper in Manila returns home to confront unforeseen changes in her...

Despite their differences, an aspiring architect falls for her deaf neighbor, who teaches her basic sign language.

A high school movie featuring a mix of real students and professional actors that deals with the experience of finding one's identity in a country...

On Christmas Day, 15 year old David finds out that his boyfriend, Jonathan has taken another lover. The discovery leads him on the brink of...

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive...

A young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.

Lorna, a mother of two, just lost her husband, a fisherman one morning in a tragic sea accident. She was left with no choice but to raise her own...

It follows a young gymnast who discovers she is pregnant on the week of the national team tryouts. On her way to a seller of illegal abortion drugs,...