Chai Fonacier

While absurd songs appear on karaoke screens, people seem indifferent to the arrival of an umpteenth typhoon, a force of nature that will nonetheless make itself known... (festivalscope)

Mang Pepe and his family travel from QUEZON City to Bicol on pedicabs ("sikad-sikad"). Mang Pepe and his wife, Remedios, their daughter Pina, their son JP with his pregnant blind wife Isabel, and their dog Kikay, live together in a shanty at a Quezon City slum. To survive daily, Mang Pepe drives his pedicab and carry various loads to the market while Aling Remedios washes laundry for her neighbors... (imdb)

With her children in tow, Iyay embarks on a rowdy trip from Cebu to Dumaguete to attend her estranged husband's funeral. (Netflix)

A poor aspiring rapper befriends an older poet after vandalizing his bookstore. (imdb)

A fashion designer is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband, until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer, who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth. (imdb)

Marrisa lives alone in the dark with an even darker secret. Her only contact with the outside world was with her patients, who come and go, oblivious of whether the fetuses that Marisa extracts from them survive or not. A complication besetting one of her patients threatens Marisa’s reclusive world. She fights back to protect it.