Glenn Barit

Teenager Henry begins longing for another life when he visits a mansion's construction site to seek compensation for his older brother's work injury.

A young girl's reality is intruded when her father who's been away abroad for almost a decade suddenly comes home as an animated doodle figure.

Nangungupahan follows the different lives of people who occupy a room of an apartment through different points in time. The room may mean differently to each occupant; and by overlapping these timelines, we gain insight about our shared space and history, as well as the bigger structures outside that affect us.

Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib Apostol finds himself looking for his best friend Tric Torres back in high school. Guided by a map his best friend made for him, Tib attempts to visit each place around his hometown to retrace memories of his friendship with Tric.

Different students from a high school cleaners group each deal with different pressures of being clean and pure while also discovering that the world is dirty and superficial to begin with.

In the small town of Pagadian, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.

A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he still has the gift to make people laugh.

Luzonensis is a prehistoric hominid who is about to leave overseas to be a migrant worker. Hours before departing, he discovers that his passport is missing. Together with his father, they retrace their path to find it. Luzonensis ponders on who he is and his place in this country as their backs ache along the way.

In a small town outside of Manila in 2017, a laundromat owner's son finds his missing classmate's ID in a police uniform's dirty laundry.

After getting disposed of, a facemask starts to turn into a humanoid figure while looking for its previous owner. It then wanders around different places in Manila and starts an adventure.

The narrator talks about leaving Manila to escape the pandemic, but she realizes that she cannot really get away from it. A person talks about being inside a quarantine facility after testing positive. Another person shares her fear of getting pregnant due to the lack of proper healthcare. The narrator goes back to Manila, only to realize that her fears will always follow her but she can do something about it.

On unearthing the identity that we've buried in the efforts to level ourselves with cultures that are not our own: In the struggle to move forward, we’ve been misled into situations causing us to be pitted against one another, and ultimately we end up losing our land, our way of life, and our identity. Yet our rich and beautiful culture is still inside of us is just waiting to be heard. If only we could realize that acknowledging and learning from our roots could contribute greatly to attain true liberation and proper development as a nation.

After losing both parents, two brothers search the skies for solace and clarity. Could the answer be really out of this world?

At a family-run restaurant in Ilocos, Jorge, a privileged young man, is forced to work alongside Kiko, a street-smart newcomer hired by Jorge's grandfather, Tino, a retired sakada. When Tino suddenly dies, the two discover a hidden cigar box filled with unsent letters and photographs that reveal a decades-old love story between Tino and his best friend, Bong - a bond shaped by migration, forgetting, and sacrifice. As Jorge and Kiko piece together this lost history, their own relationship begins to shift. Set across generations and rooted in Ilokano culture, the series is a quiet exploration of class, intimacy, and the legacies we inherit - and choose to carry forward.

Years of destruction to the rich, ancestral land, culture, and relationships in Nueva Vizcaya by a large-scale foreign mining company has divided the people, but has also summoned the collective strength of the mountains and the community to rise up. The Didipio community of Twali-Ifugao indigenous people put their stakes in setting up a barricade and risk to continue the fight for their life, honor, and land.

a film by Jill Go-Soco

Ren, a gay college student, half-halfheartedly lets go of his activist suitor Lenny, believing that his rebel partner is still alive despite rumors that their group has been ambushed.

After discovering a hidden clause in his work insurance, CELSO, a factory worker, goes extreme and faces a life-altering decision, challenging reality to secure his family's future.

In 2010, a group of high-school classmates reunite for a swimming trip, not knowing it’s the last one they’ll ever be fully together. A meditation on death and all things dying. A short film commissioned for the US video release of Cleaners.

As the city of Zamboanga celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, a couple tries to survive to survive the drought that has been wrecking havoc on their flower farm and raise enough money for the wife's imminent childbirth. Meanwhile, a tragedy – which will be later be known as the 2013 Zamboanga Siege – is about to strike.