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Nakaw 2017
Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

Rolyo 2012
Short film by Rea Abalos.

Lugaw 2012
Out of luck Boyong, a father of a sick child, tries to look for money.

Alaala ni Itay 2011

Wayt Elefants 2008
An experimental comedy short from the Philippines.

Rolyo 2007
In between harvests, to supplement their income, Judith is sent by her father to catch birds which they would peddle come Sunday outside the church. On their trip to the city, Judith requests that they watch a movie after selling off all the birds. What Judith gets in return is a torotot (trumpet) made out of rolled-up film negatives. The story is set in Bikol where it is a practice among rural folks to surround the perimeter of their farmlands with film negatives to ward off birds eating the newly sown palay seeds.

Mother Ignacia: Ang Uliran 1998
This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

White Funeral 1997 star_border 5.5
A bride walks on the desert. She takes off her bridal ornaments and turns into a harlot. A multitude of people crawl on their bellies, become sick and soon die. A volcano erupts. White ashes of lahar cover the earth. The bride remembers her betrothal and repents--symbolically paving the way for the resurrection of her people. A final bridal march into a new heaven and earth takes place.

The Last Fish in the World 1996
People around the world try doing bizarre things to have fish and in the end, the last fish decides to leave them.

The Friendly Letter 1996
The “Friendly Letter” is what you get when you don’t care enough to send the very best.

Movements 1995
Visual interpretation of original Filipino music in 5 parts.

JUNKZILLA 1995
A family witnesses the transformation of their garbage into a monster.

Tributaries 1995
A man finds answers and more questions as he looks beyond the water's surface.

The Brief Lifespan of Fire, Act 2, Scene 2: Suring and the Kuk-ok 1995
Suring casts a spell of immense beauty, but is persecuted by humanity. She retreats to the forests, far from the prying eyes of humans. There, she befriends the Kuk-ok, a creature who can morph into any form.

AGOSTO 9 1994
An expressionistic story of a soldier’s lament as he lies on his hospital bed 50 years after the Second World War.

Memories of Old Manila 1993
A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time.

Trip 1993
A young boy from the province goes to the city for the first time and learns about the urban life through the characters inside a jeepney.

Chicken Soup 2 1992
In facing apartment units, two men share parallel stories. One, distraught over the death of John Lennon, contemplates on killing himself. The other goes into a fit deciding how to part with his 3-years-old toothbrush.

Difference 1992
Two domestic helpers consigned by fate to a very awkward situation. Both are trapped in a common pitfall, but each has her own way of crawling out of the damned thing.

Birth, Love and Farewell 1991
Experimental essay film.

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