Bryle Mikkoel Ilagan
Directing
Biography
From Bacoor, Cavite, BRYLE MIKKOEL ILAGAN is a film student at the UP Film Institute. As an enthusiastic learner of film production and scholarship about cinema outside the mainstream, his interests include film sound, editing, documentary, experimental cinema, and anything that can merge all four.
Known For
A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in the form of an unanswered phone call.
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Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.
CALLING 84843
On the anniversary of her renowned musician sister's death, a young radio presenter revisits her unreleased demo tapes in the studio for a documentary and finds herself haunted by the guilt of her past sins. Based on 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Dead Air
A short experimental documentary on the loss of urban spaces and the fight to reclaim them as pedestrians, commuters, and PUV drivers face a transport crisis in the Philippines.
Concrete Conflicts
Four science high school students struggle to complete their capstone project—all while dealing with an oppressive principal, academic pressure, personal conflicts, and questions about identity.
Leslie, Germie, Benjie, Trixie
Film students Queenie, Izzie, and Angie encounter a masked man named Masculado who threatens to distort every film there is into his vision of queer cinema—one that only features masc-for-masc BLs. Using their powers, the trio must stop Masculado before he distorts cinema for good!
Q.I.A.
Three former high school best friends reunite four years later in college. Their short reunion grows tenser as they recall something from their past.
21st Birthday
14-year-old Grace learns Bisaya from her mom for breakfast, to impress her crush for lunch, before she tastes and translates her bittersweet growing pains with an imminent departure for dinner.
manihapon na ta
a film by Cis De Luna
Scytoscoscia
Estranged friends Kia and Maria face an unexpected reunion in the chapel of their old all-girls' Catholic school, where they are forced to redress feelings left unspoken in their mutual fixations on the Virgin Mary.
Halikana
A two-minute experimental film visualizing my daily encounters with OCD — rhythmic and dissonant ones alike.
Obsessions, Compulsions
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.
Danas
Barangay Krus na Ligas in the wee hours of dawn, slowly waking up from its slumber.