Ferdinand Lapuz

Sarah, a middle-aged woman who hustles as the sole breadwinner of her family of two, scrambles to teach online courses and meet her food orders to provide for her delinquent son Emman. One day, Sarah brings home Oliver, one of her students, to give him refuge from his violent father. Oliver's presence will have an unimagined impact on Emman.

When a college queer dies suddenly in their dorm, they return as a ghost — not to seek revenge, but to say the one thing they never found the courage to say in life: "I love you".

Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in the midst of a storm, one for the victim's burial, the other for the suspect's bail bond.

During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).

With his family life in shambles amidst the government's war on drugs, a young man transitions from being an ordinary filmmaker to being a full-fledged member of the revolutionary movement, proving that conviction knows no gender.

Jewel Ouyang was once an actress and the daughter of a wealthy Chinese businessman until she suffered from dementia and lost everything. She is being cared for by his lawyer son, Kyle Nicolas, who later hired Teresa Firmante, a caregiver who desires to undergo rhinoplasty to escape her present life. One morning, Jewel stumbles upon a locket necklace containing an old photo of herself with her parents. Teresa soon realizes that this locket is aiding Jewel in slowly recalling her memories of the past – her childhood, her mischievous adolescence, her husband, and her dysfunctional relationship with her older brother, Magnus Ouyang, whom she believes forged their deceased father, Jasper Ouyang's, last will and testament in order to keep her out of the inheritance. Jewel seeks out vengeance and retribution as she later faces Magnus in court.

Sarah, a middle-aged woman who hustles as the sole breadwinner of her family of two, scrambles to teach online courses and meet her food orders to provide for her delinquent son Emman. One day, Sarah brings home Oliver, one of her students, to give him refuge from his violent father. Oliver's presence will have an unimagined impact on Emman.

When a college queer dies suddenly in their dorm, they return as a ghost — not to seek revenge, but to say the one thing they never found the courage to say in life: "I love you".

Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in the midst of a storm, one for the victim's burial, the other for the suspect's bail bond.

During a film shoot where abuse is disguised as artistic direction, a comeback actress commits a devastating performance to survive, exposing how cinema can construct and legitimize violence. In Ang Lihim ni Teresa (Teresa's Secret), she enters a set where authority is absolute and cruelty is framed as discipline. As production unfolds, she loses control over body, emotion, and authorship, where survival is mistaken for consent. When violence escalates, she chooses to live, burying the truth as the director’s collapse is rewritten as myth. The set becomes a crime scene without witnesses. In the aftermath, she is praised for her “courage” while a sound technician retreats into silence. At a commemorative screening, celebration fractures, revealing cinema’s ability to transform violence into narrative and absolution. The myth of the Kataw appears briefly through Ang Lihim ng Kataw (The Secret of Kataw).

With his family life in shambles amidst the government's war on drugs, a young man transitions from being an ordinary filmmaker to being a full-fledged member of the revolutionary movement, proving that conviction knows no gender.

Jewel Ouyang was once an actress and the daughter of a wealthy Chinese businessman until she suffered from dementia and lost everything. She is being cared for by his lawyer son, Kyle Nicolas, who later hired Teresa Firmante, a caregiver who desires to undergo rhinoplasty to escape her present life. One morning, Jewel stumbles upon a locket necklace containing an old photo of herself with her parents. Teresa soon realizes that this locket is aiding Jewel in slowly recalling her memories of the past – her childhood, her mischievous adolescence, her husband, and her dysfunctional relationship with her older brother, Magnus Ouyang, whom she believes forged their deceased father, Jasper Ouyang's, last will and testament in order to keep her out of the inheritance. Jewel seeks out vengeance and retribution as she later faces Magnus in court.

Ace, 23, and Miko, 17, desperately want to become famous actors but it seems the Universe has a different plan for their lives.

A poor father receives cash from the newly elected mayor he supported, but when he sets out to buy food for his son's birthday later that day, he's thrust into a comical adventure that tests his values and wit.

A 12-year old Anita falls in love with the new woman in town; years later, a girlhood crush blossoms during the Fiesta of Santa Clara in Obando, Bulacan.

A woman consumed by a hoarding obsession roams the streets, collecting objects she believes will be useful when her son, missing for three years, finally returns home.

Carmen, a middle-aged cook, is about to close down her eatery at the foot of Mt. Arayat when a white American teenage boy named Mercury approaches her and begs for work in exchange of nothing but shelter.

Paul is a restless twenty-something who cannot get his life together. Worse, he’s been holding on to his love towards Red, his best friend Ivan’s boyfriend. Looking for a sense of direction, he goes to Siem Reap and meets Tang, who falls in love with him. But when Ivan leaves Red without any explanation, Paul finds himself caught between chasing his unrequited love for Red or choosing Tang, the one who is always willing to give him love that he cannot return.

Merlie is a playful girl whose imagination makes her drawings come alive. As her home, their community, faces the threat of demolition, she makes her bravest decisions in her final bid to mark their space in a cruel city.

A returning son carries the weight of the city and the secrets of how he survived it back to a home suffocated by his father's blind loyalty.

Norma, a typical teenager who is always online, created a joint social media account for her and her boyfriend to mark their third monthsary. She gets a rare illness called electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which means she can't be around cellphones, tablets, laptops, and Wi-Fi. To help her cope with her syndrome, Norma relocates to a remote province with no signal, forcing her to have a long-distance relationship with Leo.

The Chanters is a comedy-drama film about Sarah Mae, a 12 year old school girl, the grand-daughter of the last chanter of the Panay Bukidnon tribe. She obsesses with pop culture and readies herself for the visit of a sensational TV star to her school. As she perfects her dance, her grandfather, Lolo Ramon suffers the onset of dementia. As her Lolo starts losing his precious memories, Sarah Mae is tasked to help him complete the last of the remaining 12 epics, their tribe’s vanishing tradition.

The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.

In Japan's quiet apartments, a Filipino kodokushi cleaner meets an elderly widower who asks him for one final favor before he dies. What begins as a promise becomes a quiet story of grief, family, and accepting life's impermanence.

A young woman determined to find her mother is about to become their town's first OFW, sending the townsfolk into a frenzy of over-the-top reactions.

When two popular content creators face conflicts in their respective romantic relationships, they decide to form an unlikely collaboration.

A fading social media influencer and a struggling musician exploit each other in a not-so-fake relationship.

In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation.

Surrounded by tensions and secrets, a teenage boy searches for validation and navigates life with a dysfunctional family following an HIV diagnosis.

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.

A gay beautician is determined to clear his name after learning he's included in a drug watchlist.

Working a double shift at an overcrowded public maternity hospital on Christmas Day, nurse Sarah tends to a flood of mothers sharing beds and filling hallways—taking the holiday chaos in stride while quietly bearing her own personal pain.

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.

This is a dramedy that tackles the friendship of five ageing prostitutes who live together in an old house despite their ripe age, they continue being sex trade workers along the bridge that serves as a hang-out spot for customers who are oftentimes tagged as “outcasts”. the story unfolds from the viewpoint of dalena, the central character. by day, she works as an albularyo (traditional healer) outside church, but works as hooker by nighttime. they say she is possessed by mary magdalene. in the midst of their struggles, we get to see how the five friends tackle. life has never been any easy for them… but they live on for the better.

Gruff retiree Rene rejects most human contact, but begins to soften once he comes to terms with his homosexuality.

A Kapampangan youth who doesn't know how to speak in Kapampangan--and doesn't want to--until he runs into a compelling but weird character known as the king of Kapampangan poets.

Ordinary People is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not even a month into parenthood, their child is stolen from them. In order to retrieve the child, the young couple is forced to take desperate measures.

In a small farming town, a graduating high school girl struggles to convince her distrustful father to allow her to continue her studies in college after her older sister gets pregnant while being sent to the same university.

A single mother working as a film extra dreams of landing bigger roles while struggling with the harsh realities of the entertainment industry.

Lola Igna is a foul-mouthed and stubborn woman who is eager to die but her neighbors are hung up on her winning "the oldest living grandmother in the world." Her long-lost great-great-grandson, Tim, is an aspiring vlogger who wants to latch on her now-famous grandma but ends up giving her a new reason to live.

To lull the sorrow after being abandoned by his mother, Justin joins the school spelling bee.

Two young siblings go on a fantastical adventure to satiate their much-coveted and delectable craving for batsoy.

After her best friend dies, Barbs starts a new life as a straight man named Bobby, which leads her to Trisha's ex-boyfriend Michaelangelo, to her own ex-boyfriend Greg and to a woman claiming she is pregnant with Barbs' child.

A production assistant goes on a trip with a strange old man and his son who threatens him but at the same time, gives him the answers he seeks.

In the unforgiving world of professional boxing, Angelo, a journeyman known for throwing fights to settle debts and support his family, balances his nights as a factory laborer with a desperate bid for redemption and dignity inside the ring, challenging the corrupt system that controls his fate.

Lando, a laid-back fisherman, enjoys joining the yearly "Aguman Sanduk" fellowship cross-dressing festivity with his peers of Alpha males as an enjoyable rest and recreation. Meanwhile, his mundane everyday life back in his isolated hut surrounded by fish pond waters is beset with a horrifying secret about him being physically abused by his wife, beating him to a pulp and sometimes degrades him verbally with no remorse constantly about women being linked to him. Lori, the wife, is set to leave for abroad as a domestic helper. She harbors ill feelings against Lando whom she caught meeting with his ex-girlfriend in a rendezvous. Her unusual violent streak becomes acceptably normal to Lando, who easily yields to his guilt. In a heated, passionate moment of desire, Lori steps back upon realizing that she doesn't love Lando anymore.