Production
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.
When an ongoing apocalypse halts the production of Gabby's new film, she escapes to see her artist friend Tona in La Union, a former booming beach town and strategic site for a US military base.
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.
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.
Merlie is a playful girl whose imagination makes her drawings come alive. As her home, their community, faces the threat of demolition, she makes her bravest decisions in her final bid to mark their space in a cruel city.
Gem is all hustle and grit, moving to Mati, Davao to chase a childhood dream. JC is a wealthy, easygoing cafe owner who never needed one. Their clashing worlds and beliefs surprisingly spark a meaningful romance. But when Gem’s big break finally comes, she must decide - should she chase the future she planned or stay with the love that changed her?
Three land rights activists contend with their volatile notions of home amid terror and red-tagging in Cagayan Valley.
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.
Employees and customers are trapped in a supermarket while, outside, a typhoon ravages the country. It's time for confidences and revelations. Zombies, they say, in a society that is not easy for any of them. In a limited space, they try to discover their stories. And that could be their last day.
Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and finds comfort in a love interest through his constant phone calls.
