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.
Hito (2023)
Dir. Stephen Lopez, 22min
After getting beaten up, a 14-year-old girl forms a telepathic connection to a dog and is charged with protecting a talking fish. Mixing a bleak military dystopian landscape with technicolor phantasms, this explosive fever dream captures her mission to break free.
i get so sad sometimes (2021)
Dir. Tristan Perez, 20min, DCP
Jake is a high school teenager in Pagadian, a town too small for him. He lives with his mother and keeps his circle of friends small. However, at night, he secretly spends his time on the internet with a mature man whose face he still hasn’t seen yet. When this stranger finally promises to reveal his face, Jake can barely contain his excitement…
octogod (2019)
Dir. Shievar Olegario, 20min
An elusive graphic designer, who steals and retouches photos for his website, finds himself in another dimension after updating his website’s content.
somewhere a destination (2021)
Dir. Celeste Lapida, 8min
Created in the middle of the pandemic and during her own gender transition, queer filmmaker Celeste Lapida’s impressionistic work lives in seeking, searching, and especially remembering moments of queerness.
the river that never ends (2022)
Dir. JT Trinidad, 19min, DCP
Along a river that undergoes a major change, Baby, a middle-aged transwoman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. But as the people around her start to disappear, Baby realizes that she has been left behind in a sprawling city.
Dir. Stephen Lopez, 22min
After getting beaten up, a 14-year-old girl forms a telepathic connection to a dog and is charged with protecting a talking fish. Mixing a bleak military dystopian landscape with technicolor phantasms, this explosive fever dream captures her mission to break free.
i get so sad sometimes (2021)
Dir. Tristan Perez, 20min, DCP
Jake is a high school teenager in Pagadian, a town too small for him. He lives with his mother and keeps his circle of friends small. However, at night, he secretly spends his time on the internet with a mature man whose face he still hasn’t seen yet. When this stranger finally promises to reveal his face, Jake can barely contain his excitement…
octogod (2019)
Dir. Shievar Olegario, 20min
An elusive graphic designer, who steals and retouches photos for his website, finds himself in another dimension after updating his website’s content.
somewhere a destination (2021)
Dir. Celeste Lapida, 8min
Created in the middle of the pandemic and during her own gender transition, queer filmmaker Celeste Lapida’s impressionistic work lives in seeking, searching, and especially remembering moments of queerness.
the river that never ends (2022)
Dir. JT Trinidad, 19min, DCP
Along a river that undergoes a major change, Baby, a middle-aged transwoman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. But as the people around her start to disappear, Baby realizes that she has been left behind in a sprawling city.
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