Guile Aparicio

Inspired by a true case of child exploitation known as the 'Christmas-sale activity,' On Christmas Eve, a child’s game of hide and seek turns tragic when a stranger takes one child away, leaving the other with fear as she struggles to bring him back before the holiday.

In the aftermath of loss, an orphan girl flees her gloomy fate and is drawn to a mysterious light, leading her to a life reflection and a journey of intertwined destinies.

June, a single father of an 18-year-old named Andoy, planned a big event for his only son. He displays everything that his son’s favorite. His son got trauma when he was a kid, but his father didn’t know anything about him. When the guests arrive, everything was off, his son heard a lot of things. Every guest was happy but Andoy locks himself for avoidance to never hear any of them.

After the death of their beloved Grandma Gloria, a family of four is having a hard time to reconnect. At the wake, Jopet, the son, finds a letter from his dead grandmother that will lead him to a search of identity, belongingness, and family secrets…

Two unemployed fresh graduates living together in a house apartment for years, both stuck in debts, unemployment, and the Philippine government crisis, discovers the harsh reality through the urgency of a deprived landlady.

When a chaos happened to a young overseas filipino worker during his labor, an aftermath that he needs to go through as his housemate depart and triggers his psychological perspective.

In a mist-shrouded mountain range, two young recordists search fragments of memory buried in static, silence, and soil. As they gather stories erased by conflict, an intimate resistance takes shape: quiet, tender, and defiant in the face of forgetting.