Toni Cañete
Directing
Known For

Four queer women in their 30s who are exes-turned-best-friends navigate adulthood, love, friendship, chosen families, and everything in between.
Open Endings

Preparing for their class’s ‘Araw ng mga Pangarap’ Bonbon, a boy with a curious mind aspires to be like his parents–dead, but as he prepares for their event Bonbon reconnects with his estranged Lola and discovers a new dream budding from their unexpected bond.
Kwitis

In a small farming town, a graduating high school girl struggles to convince her distrustful father to allow her to continue her studies in college after her older sister gets pregnant while being sent to the same university.
Champ Green

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There Was Something Here Once

In late 2040s Manila, Wax and Phil’s dying relationship is shaken by a family member's transient arrival. As they accommodate this estrangement, they find a final push to retrace an old desire—to feel.
Tomorrow, To Feel

Just as she was about to give up on her pursuit of companionship, traumatized, nine-year-old Sol meets and befriends a forest spirit on her tenth birthday, making way for an exploration of healing, identity, and desire in the remaining days before she enters a new school.
until then

Two girls, both desperate to be understood, navigate the push and pull of a single night after one of them overdoses on antipsychotics. They spend the entire night filling their conversations with negotiations between life and death, between memory and oblivion.
dala

A film by Fea Fortuna
Have I Grown?

A film by Gaby Marcial
Mutya

Coming back home after thirteen years, a 16 year old is forced to remember what little she knows of home when her mother decides to run away. In a grueling road trip with her estranged grandmother, in a place that she has long forgotten, she soon realizes that she isn't the only one looking for a mother.
desilya

Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by a plausible saleslady in a very unusual IT retail shop.
huhumcrediTT

Two girls who speak different languages search for a missing conch. One sees it as a belonging from her late brother, the other assumes it's her friend's brother under a curse. Through a journey of misunderstandings, they slowly begin to realize that maybe there are also other things worth finding.
Mr. Tony is not Really a Shell!

A trans woman mourns her lover’s inexplicable disappearance through ritual and performance across different spaces that tether her to both his presence and absence until grief becomes the only thing that feels real.
up here, disappear

A trip down memory lane as a filmmaker looks back at the past that has been chasing her onto the present. She enlists the help of her cousins, with whom she grew up with, to provide the lens with which she could look at her own past in the eye, hoping that in some way, she could finally stop running.