Janina Mendoza

The sound of the wind, the singing of birds, and leaves dancing through the breeze. You feel and hear all of these as you look at an urn while lying down on a ground full of dead leaves, when you suddenly remember a memory that never left your mind. A memory that made you question yourself. “Are you truly not lonely, or have you gotten used to the feeling that you can’t even tell anymore?” And as you ask yourself, like a surge of waves, you see all the memories that made you feel alone, without even noticing it. You feel, hear, and see everything as you remember the life you lived up until this point in your life. All of these are playing all at once inside your mind, and you’re only left to cry until they all make sense. But just like how water flows in the sea, you need to let these memories go so that you won’t drown in them forever, to set yourself free and move forward for another day. You need to let go of the urn.

The Philippines, 1902. The land is raw, wounded, occupied. Smoke clings to the trees. Blood soaks the soil. The war is over – but the violence lingers. Widows fill the villages. Mothers vanish into silence. Among them walks Sisa, barefoot and broken, dismissed as mad by those who fear what they don't understand. But madness is only the surface.

Emman, a visual artist, becomes drawn to his neighbor, Althea — a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. As he and his fiancée, Liz, try to help Althea, Emman’s growing desire for her pulls him into a nightmare of betrayal and darkness.

When the local government threatens to evict her from her own land, a farmer renounces her Filipino citizenship and builds her own micronation.

Caught in a creative struggle, a painter confronts her traumatic past and unfulfilled dreams when commissioned to paint seascape art, leading her on a journey of self-discovery through the depths of the sea and uncharted waters of her own.

In a mental rehabilitation center, a woman, newly turned sixty, with schizoaffective disorder, waits all year for her family to visit on her birthday. But as the day arrives, a typhoon threatens to derail her plans and her sense of reality.

During a promotional appearance of a movie cast on a noontime show, the hosts, producers and writers implement damage control with a swift change in segment when the upcoming teen star of the film unintentionally reveals crucial information regarding the love team, endangering the reputation of the film.