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An ambitious dancer hallucinates her other self while practicing the piece.

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...

A lonely, introverted girl faces mysterious encounters during her high school class’ religious retreat trip.

Before graduating, high school sweethearts Ralph and Angelo face their final test: the rise of AI, love in turmoil, and the choices that could define...

A timid teenage boy falls into a hollow void with people who constantly ridicule him. He tries to escape confrontation but seems to be stuck in his...

An overheard imitative playing of a tarot reading forces Tasha to confront all her suppressed life tensions in an overnight house...

Ling is in her last year in elementary school. One school day, her botanist father fails to pick her up and doesn't return home from fieldwork....

After being forced out of school, Kokoy, 20, finally finds hope after landing a job interview. Little does he know that he is living a real-life loop...

During the course of one night, a young journalist is set to finish his investigative report that will expose the private army of an influential...

Ace, a closeted gay guy, learns Judo in a class full of straight men, channeling his inner Mulan.

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...

A local barbershop will be closing soon after serving for 28 years. Rey, the barber, has decided to open his shop for one last time. His last day...

The Reyes family prepares to take a family portrait.

A film by Fea Fortuna

Confined and isolated within the four corners of her room, a woman’s confusion grows as her room becomes smaller, with marks appearing after...

Hosts of a horror show investigate a woman's haunted house.

On unearthing the identity that we've buried in the efforts to level ourselves with cultures that are not our own: In the struggle to move forward,...

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a...

Years of destruction to the rich, ancestral land, culture, and relationships in Nueva Vizcaya by a large-scale foreign mining company has divided the...

A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris is...