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Kino Kalye 2023
Kino Kalye was birthed from a desire to show how this sense of alienation, the speed of commerce, and the consequences of the increasingly digital landscape occurred even outside his home, across industries, felt most strongly by those in the margins.
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As Seen by the Unseen 2023
In this collaborative film, documentary filmmakers and photographers from around the world reflect on the mass movements and protests during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Next Picture 2020    star_border 6
Solitary men in a roomy but empty cinema, omnipresent smartphones, and pop-up sexual intimations coalesce in a raunchy yet incisive portrait of Manila's evolving queer space.
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Flush 2020    star_border 6
A subdued worker serves a swollen man bound in an endless cycle of simultaneous consumption and defecation. A series of unprecedented events follow after the worker is forcibly laid off.
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After Hours 2019    star_border 10
A pensive man wearing an empty ID jacket and a broken watch drifts through public spaces on the way home.
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We Forgot About the Children 2017
A short animated film about Martial Law in the Philippines.
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Tisoy 2015
A university student learns that it is not so easy to borrow a library book. Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sari Estrada's segment in the anthology "Anatomiya ng Pag-Ibig."
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Murmurs From the Somber Depths of Sta. Mesa 2015
This film is composed of black and white images from the somber depths of Manila’s Sta. Mesa district, which are juxtaposed in the railroad system that metaphorically connects the lives of each individual in the community. Captured by a single camera and a keen eye, each moving picture is accompanied by stories of grief, misery, hope and inspiration.
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Where's Grandpa Mê? 2014    star_border 4
A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.
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Soliloquies 2013
A young woman revisiting memories of a lost love days before Martial Law is proclaimed -- an old, jaded mechanic -- a young man on his way to the countryside encountering a host of militia men and their tortured captive -- these are stories of forgotten hopes, of wearied struggles, of memories lost. Can they still be ever found?
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Hando 2011
A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.
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