Martha Comia

Four Filipinos confront the slow erasure of memory and truth in a country devoured by disinformation.

Philip and Bastian are lovers. Philip has taken the responsibility to help his older brother’s family in the slums. However, when Bastian pursues painting and can no longer provide for Philip, Philip resorts to hustling in order to help his brother’s family. When Bastian catches Philip being picked up by a gay man in a car, he decides to keep everything inside. Can Philip and Bastian’s love prevail despite the odds?

Mga Anino sa Tanghaling Tapat takes place over the period of summer. The adolescence of the three girls is told through the mundane rituals of the province: farm work, bathing, washing laundry, processions, and harvest rituals. Through the restless emotions, insecurities, blossoming loves, and conflicts - these young, beautiful and vulnerable girls will undergo an inevitable change through the passing of the summer.

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

Deep in the slums of Manila, a young boxer's life is changed forever when his father pressures him to cheat in a fight.

About the characters meeting on an ordinary day. Alfonso, a gunman from the Other Side goes to town in search of the Captain for a payment that is owed to him. He arrived at the house seeing Liwliw, the Captain's daughter practicing her dance. Complications arise when Delfin, a passionate poet, serenades the young lady.

In the time of war, can goodness be still found? “Memories of the Rising Sun” traces a Japanese soldier’s journey to humanity as he find himself torn between his loyalty to his mother country and his love and care for the Filipino family that cared for him. In the darkest of times, where hope is only a glimmer, can the heart still find its way to care?

A supposed “happy gathering” amongst childhood friends becomes a bitter revelation as Jason, an openly gay man, attempts to discuss a serious and personal matter, only to find out that his friends are a homophobic bunch after all these years. Surprised with his friends’ views on his sexual orientation and LGBTQ issues in general, powdered with toxic masculinity, he decides to keep the issue to himself as he walks out of the party, and eventually from the friendship he thought he had with them.

Santa Nena, a patron saint statue that springs to life every night, suddenly falls in love with a teenager even though God forbids her.