Serena Magiliw

Acting

Serena Magiliw

Serena Magiliw is a Filipino independent actress, director, and cultural worker.

Acting credits

Baklas Kalas poster
NR

Woman is challenged to traverse through a metallic path crafted by calloused hands of men.

Baklas Kalas

2025

Ang Happy Homes ni Diane Hilario poster
NR

A story of ordinary, happy people living in a tenement is suddenly shaken by a string of conspicuous deaths. Unfortunate and unrelated deaths continue, and they think a killer is living among them.

Ang Happy Homes ni Diane Hilario

2025

Julie poster
NR

During the annual pandemic season, a "callboy" performs cybersex while working as a caretaker for a house owned by a Chinese landlord, and reminiscing life before the pandemic - particularly a short warm moment with a trans woman, Julie.

Julie

2020

Fin poster
NR

In the summer of 2001, 16-year-old Andoy searches for his long-lost father in the most unlikely of things — VHS tapes. His reality becomes mystified when two movie-like characters appear in their small hometown.

Fin

2024

take me to an unbridled fury poster
NR

Mabel rediscovers her passion for dance, catching the eye of a female dance group. They invite her to join, offering solace and sisterhood. Yet, their bond is tested by their manipulative coach, who demands performances even during menstruation. Mabel uncovers a shocking secret: her best friend Tanya is having an affair with the coach. Feeling betrayed, Mabel grapples with morality. At a rave, psychedelic drugs reveal the group's true nature as a cult, worshiping divine feminine energy. Embracing her role, Mabel leads a ritualistic ceremony, defeating their oppressor and ushering in a new era of empowerment.

take me to an unbridled fury

2024

don't you forget poster
NR

Torn between bailing out her boyfriend and reaffirming her body, a trans woman chooses the world.

don't you forget

2025

To Become a Mother poster
NR

The film follows the not-so-colorful life of Giliw after getting abandoned by his long-term partner, Roy. After a year of Giliw working in Japan, Roy and his girlfriend, Lilet, invites her to attend their child's baptism. Suddenly, Giliw discovers the unfortunate situation of Lilet and her child.

To Become a Mother

2023

Where The Cave Ends poster
NR

Jim, a journalist seeking the truth about the Babaylan in a cave who is presented by the media as responsible for the disappearance of a colonel in the area. As Jim wanders in the cave, he will find a truth that will set him free.

Where The Cave Ends

2026

Hala! Naiwan Si Rocky! poster
NR

A chance reunion during a ride from Manila to Atimonan, Quezon forces three estranged friends to confront buried wounds, lingering guilt, and the unspoken truths that drove them apart years ago.

Hala! Naiwan Si Rocky!

2026

Warla poster
NR

A group of transgender women belonging to a gang kidnaps foreign men to fund their gender-affirming surgeries, not knowing that their quest to free themselves to be who they are may end with them in prison.

Warla

2025

Bulakna poster
NR

An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native island to work as a domestic in Europe, the other to return for good.

Bulakna

2025

mermaids don't play hopscotch poster
NR

Amidst the sea of forgotten treasures, Kokoy, guided by his godmother Jessica and her eccentric companion Tessa, discovers the radiant pearls of defying society's rules.

mermaids don't play hopscotch

2024

Merlie, Go Home poster
NR

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.

Merlie, Go Home

2025

Day of the Everlasting Sun poster
NR

A filmmaker roams around to film the lives of people during the longest day of the year.

Day of the Everlasting Sun

2026

When I Wallowed in a Bowl of Sunshine poster
NR

Two trans-folx friends, together with their dog and plants, grieve for and with each other during a 14-day quarantine period.

When I Wallowed in a Bowl of Sunshine

2021

RAMPAGE! (or the parade) poster
4.0

RAMPAGE! (or the parade)

RAMPAGE! (or the parade)

2024

Girly Is in Control of His Life poster
7.0

Gay teenager Girly looks for a job in a world he is unaware of.

Girly Is in Control of His Life

2019