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- When a student's suicide rattles an all-girls Catholic school, a clairvoyant guidance counselor leans on a ghost to uncover the convent's abusive past.
- Days before graduation, two college best friends go on one last road trip where they settle how they really feel for each other. But to put it upfront, this is not a love story.
- A cautionary tale told in three contradicting accounts, this is a story of a broadcasting student who discovers the shady truth about the TV reporter he idolizes, a dignified newsman who is supposed to be a paragon of virtue, but is not who he appears to be on television.
- A transgender sex worker in her late 40s along Fields Avenue whose only aspiration is to have breast implants for her profession unexpectedly assumes the role of a mother to her orphaned niece, a transgender youth who is only beginning to discover her own sexuality. As she works more shifts to save for her implants, troubles arise when she begins to feel the weight of her struggles - being an aging sex worker in fast-evolving society, a partner to her young fiancé, and a parent to a teenager she just met. Her difficult confrontations eventually lead her to a new attitude towards life, and a unique recipe to a famous Kapampangan dish, Sisig.
- A futuristic Philippines with specific sections of the country under individual bio-domes. The OFWs are actually Outerspace Filipino Workers and the song Bahay-Kubo is a distant memory that makes a young boy ask: "Ano ang singkamas?"
- In the darker side of Manila-by-night, tribes of youthful gangsters roam the streets in search of quick fixes and precarious thrills. World-weary Tondo throbs to the beat of of hiphop and freestyle gangsta rap, and to the scents and sensations of drugs and sex and violence. We witness this crepus-cular underworld through the eyes of ten-year-old Ebet. We follow him as he witnesses the deadly lives of teen age gang members in Tondo and the events that lead to their explosive confrontation. The Thugz Angels tribe members chance upon a blood-soaked body of a member of another gang. Police arrest a Thugz Angels member for the murder. The murdered teen is a member of the Sacred Brown Tribe, whose leaders vow to avenge their fallen member. They learn that Diablos gang members killed the SBT neophyte. During the wake, SBT members forge a reluctant alliance with the Thugz Angels, and assemble to raid the Diablos lair. The Diablos are older, bigger, and confident of their fighting prowess. They know that they are being targeted for revenge and prepare accordingly. Ebet lurks throughout the story, an enigma that is part innocent child and cynical adult. His loyalties are a mystery, and all that is clear to us is his love for his drug-addicted mother. As the clock ticks towards midnight, guns are loaded, and knives are sharpened. The battle is about to begin! And this is just part of the story. Hailed as a gritty portrayal of Manilas notoriously violent streets of Tondo, Jim Libirans Tribu is an ultra-realist depiction of youth corrupted by violence, death and decay, told documentary-style and punctuated by the poetically-charged street poetry of the cast. Realist Cinema with a social project. The filmmaker employed real-life gang members as lead actors in this film. These gangs were from rival clans working together to finish this difficult project triggered a wave of unification and peace in a large part of Tondo's ghettos.
- It's gonna hurt. An aging spy, his delusional wife, and promiscuous son are driven into madness as they confront the terrors caused by the monster known as The Shadow.
- A small-town midwife's preparation for a job interview is disrupted by an unfortunate turn of events.
- An ordinary man blessed with the uncanny gift of breeding, raising, and fighting gamecocks gets caught up in the gambling part of the sport and loses everything. He has one chance left to prove to himself and his family and friends that he is a winner and not a bum. He changes his life and attempts to put everything back in order by winning the World Slasher Cup International Derby at Araneta Coliseum. Will he succeed?
- A mystery dreamlike portrait of a movie star's harrowing ordeal in the making of a film. This is about Liz Alindogan, then 19-year old naive newbie star, and director Celso Ad Castillo dubbed as Philippine cinema's messiah. It is structured as a mystery film, making viewers question whether to believe the account of Liz Alindogan.
- The life story of a kid diagnosed with Down syndrome. He dreams of being an artista; his family has to make ends (and dreams) meet.
- Tib Apostol, guided by a map his best friend in high school made for him, retraces the memories of their friendship before he leaves their hometown for good.
- An artist and his conflict against his art.
- A young boy struggling with his identity finds solace in his dream of becoming a mermaid.
- A movie about the Filipino rock Band The Dawn.
- Three people cross paths at a local town carnival, each with something to gain and to lose. One of them acquires it, the other two pay the price.
- This dark melodrama delves into a young adult woman's submission to a traditional home and her struggle for her liberation.
- A little boy does not know that his grandfather just died. To spare him from grief, his mother brings home a stray goat and tells him it is his grandfather.
- Virgie and Ismael are lovers in the midst of a military offensive. Virgie is a teacher and Ismael is the captain of the troop assigned to infiltrate the rebels. Every Monday they meet and make love passionately and violently.
- A pensive man wearing an empty ID jacket and a broken watch drifts through public spaces on the way home.
- In a world where we conform to things around us, the bond that connects life is what ultimately makes us human.