Luis Ruiz

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor section of Manila where everybody knows her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.

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

About the notorious batang hamog loitering in main thoroughfares such as EDSA.

A loving but impoverished grandmother of an autistic child tragicomically loses everything and turns into someone society reckons her to be.

Joshua, a timid teenager, comes home one night after beaten up by the school's bully. Feeling the urge to avenge himself, he decides to take matters into his own hands. But things don't go as planned. Now, he is left with no choice but to seek help from his policeman father.

A simple story about connection, timing, and that little spark you feel in moments you never saw coming.

The community of Maras in Cusco extracts natural salt from a complex of pools. According to legend, the salt flat was formed by the tears of the Inca Ayar Cachi who was buried by his brothers before he came to found Cusco.