Editing
In a nail salon, a feminine hand requests for a manicure. However, what they get is not the pampering they expect.
Niño, a high-school graduate from Northern Mindanao, dreams of leaving his small farming town after receiving a scholarship. Inspired by the freedom of birds, or “langgam” in Tandaganon, and despite his mother’s refusal, he leaves for Metro Manila. He learns that in the city, "langgam" holds a different meaning.
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.
Flor, a drag queen, is forced to walk home after a cancelled gig. Along the way, intense heat and sporadic rain test their health and resilience.
Pusanggala, a teen with the likeness of a stray cat, ventures off into the city with her distant brother to find a place for themselves long after their parent's separation— yet faced with the barricades of endless construction, she is forced to confront the memory of the places she once called home.
Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.
A call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The two become stuck in a limbo as they accidentally stop time at the same moment, leading them to confront the frozen world together.
Indigo, a stuttering college student, finds a magic cubicle that transports him back in time. Upon abusing this power to improve his speech condition, Indigo gets lost in time and experiences the history of student activism in the university from the 2000s to the 1970s in the Philippines.
A thesis short film written and directed by MXRDD.
After Faith undergoes a procedure to erase her traumatic childhood memories, she decides to confront the truth about her seemingly happy family.
After a violent encounter with the police during a rally, a young boy is offered possible release by his detainees at great personal cost.
An unlikely friendship forms when a fifteen-year-old graphic designer helps his stubborn grandmother digitally color her old black-and-white photos. But as they bicker and bond through each photo, they soon realize that memories are anything, but black-and-white.
A production thesis by Aimeery De Castro.
After years in the United States, Miguel returns to the Philippines as a young man. Revisiting his hometown in Pampanga, he is flooded with memories of dreams and cherished moments shared with his childhood friend Simon. Carrying a souvenir from America, Miguel discovers that Simon is no longer there to meet him.
In a small rural town, 9-year-old Gelo comes up with a plan to earn enough money to buy his tricycle-driver father a day off—so he can watch Gelo perform a poem written just for him at the school’s poetry contest.
A film by Kit Munsayac.
Kaloy, a 22-year-old embalmer who illegally moonlights for a corrupt syndicate, extracting bullets from bodies and replacing them with counterfeits for extra cash. But when he finds a familiar face buried within the violence, the reality of his younger brother’s death jolts back his senses.
To cope with his mother’s death, Anton, a graduating college student, adopts a pet fish - only to slowly discover how his grief and loneliness causes his emotions to grow more intense as strange fishlike traits appear around his body.
Facing the imminent death of her people, the leader of a group of young rebels must decide whether she will take the risk of freeing her people by challenging their oppressors: an aging tyrannical king and his loyal knight.
Two drunk friends decide to get high on a "spot" on top of the city. During their trip they will understand the noises of the city below, and what life means for each other
