Mercedes Cabral

A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real "star" of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion... (imdb)

Beloved and devoted priest from a small town volunteers for a medical experiment which fails and turns him into a vampire.

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman. (imdb)

Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child. Now twenty years old, he returns home to Manila from his studies abroad. Against the backdrop of the vibrant local music scene, his childhood best friend tries to reconnect with him, while he unexpectedly finds a chance at a first, real romantic relationship. (Cinemalaya)

A childless couple eking out a hardscrabble existence on a remote island makes a fateful decision in order to obtain the child they yearn for, in this moving drama from the Cannes-honoured Filipino master Brillante Mendoza (Kinatay). (tiff.net)

Gina Alajar plays a woman who dominates illegal activities in an old district of Manila. Her family's welfare has to be weighed against the interests of the criminal business she runs with her children. (Film Festival Rotterdam)

Colossal explores the complexities of grief and the process of grieving as understood through the myth of a Man as he ventures through shifting landscapes ruminating, "... Of men who do not die, of spirits caught in the hollows of trees, of love sheltered in the embrace of truth." (Cinemanila)

Life in a remote village in the Visayas turns upside down when villagers are stricken by an unknown disease. As the village chief and doctor try to control the situation, they discover that the dead are rising from their graves. (imdb)

JOHANNES lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower ULRIK in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and tenderness of a woman and arranges for the young, beautiful, Filipino ROSITA to come to Denmark. Over the following weeks Johannes and Rosita are getting more and more attracted to each other. (imdb)

Ma' Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenient store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa and her children are ready to do anything to buy her freedom from the corrupt police. (Cannes2016)

Isaac Julien's latest project is an ambitious seven-screen video installation at the Victoria Miro, London, which follows the stories of a hedge-fund manager, an auctioneer, an art adviser – played by Franco – and a Filipina maid who cleans the high-rise offices of the rich in Dubai. (theguardian.com)

The movie narrates the story of Mikey, a young gay man, that during five years in prison for drug trafficking learns to adapt to the jail life while hearing his case, and ultimately becoming the leader of an LGBT gang.

The passenger ship Aurora mysteriously collides into the rocky sea threatening an entire island. A young woman and her sister must both survive by finding the missing dead for a bounty.