Sid Lucero

It's about a guy named Heremias, who represents the common Filipino, and comes to represent the nation's moral conscience. Heremias is on the road with his ox cart and a group of other men and their ox carts, travelling from town to town, selling handicrafts off their carts. But Heremias is brooding and fidgety. He wants to do something more than hang out with this same group of guys night after night, travelling the same route year after year. (Wise Kwai)

Set in two contrasting enivronments that undeline the same premise of imprisonment, Selda tells the story of Rommel (Sid Lucero), a young man who accidentally kills a boy, resulting in his incarceration. Inside the jail, he befriends another inmate, Esteban (Emilio), who becomes his rock and protector. Seven years later, Rommel is living in the province as a farmer together with Sita (Ara Mina) his wife. Esteban tracks down Rommel in hopes of renewing a brewing love affair. (imdb)

Mimicking early silent films, Independencia creates a lush metaphor that plays with cinematic illusions and the cultural and mythical history of the Philippines. (imdb)

Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building. And in the fourth story Baste saves his sister from Ariel. (imdb)

A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country's never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him. (festival-cannes.fr)

The search for the body of Andres Bonifacio. (imdb)

A journalist embeds herself with a violent vigilante group leader during the Philippine drug war. (nwfilm.org)

A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders. (imdb)

Eight year-old Yael, shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. One day she finds out about a pen that can "translate" the thoughts and feelings of nervous people (imdb)

SRR 12's first episode "Mamanyiika" plays on the words "mama" and "manyika" which literally means "mother doll". The story of a possessed doll is being starred by Shaina Magdayao, child star Elijah Alejo and Ricky Davao. Directed by Zoren Legaspi, it also features Jackie Lou Blanco, Malou Crisologo, Rita Avila, Jed Madela, and Mahal as the voice of the doll. Carmina Villarroel has a cameo role in the episode. Sometimes referred to as "Isla", Topel Lee takes the helm of SRR XII's second episode,

A photographer, tasked to take photos of a rare flower in the mountain, discovers women trapped in a hidden brothel for illegal loggers. Now, he must do everything to save them. (imdb)

With only three months left to live, a cancer patient compiles a list of tasks to complete before she dies.

A family trying to outrun the zombie outbreak by returning to the father's childhood farmhouse, fortifying it to keep out "The Dead Ones". Alas, there is just as much horror and trauma at the ancestral home as there is outside the gates. (imdb)