When the Apocalypse is Over: New Independent Philippine Cinema

High schoolers struggle with the pressure to be “pure” in this absurd coming-of-age anthology film that was made with a one-of-a-kind visual process, paired with a silent short about a young boy’s mythic love.

Whammy Alcazaren’s spy thriller about a family driven into madness and short about an Extremely Online man and his talking cat offer cheek, absurd investigations of our online selves.

A woman is trapped with her memories at the end of the world and a young girl seeks a magical pen to express herself in these experimental meditations of growing up in a time of chaos.

Adam’s conventional journey into adolescence is radically altered by the arrival of his period and the awareness of his intersex identity, which opens up new ways of understanding himself and the world.

Two young women struggling with loneliness have their lives upended by unexpected arrivals—of new neighbors and a strange corpse—in these fantastical and macabre explorations on longing.

Alternative dimensions, telepathic animals, and cagey strangers populate these expansive, imaginative short films.