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Showing 14 Films from Philippines
Asog
Asog
This unique narrative incorporating documentary elements follows Jaya, a 40-year-old non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, o...
Call Her Ganda
Call Her Ganda
When a transgender Filipina woman is found dead in a motel room with a U.S. Marine as the leading suspect, grassroots activists...
God Only Knows
God Only Knows
A young mother is torn between love and a better life in God Only Knows.
Graceland
Graceland
Family man Marlon Villar is the longtime chauffeur of prominent politician Manuel Chango. While he and his daughter accompany h...
Heineken Audience Award Winner
Heineken Audience Award Winner
Give Up Tomorrow won this award: In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in t...
Last Full Show
Last Full Show
A teenage boy and an older man learn a powerful lesson in forbidden love after meeting at an underground Manila movie theater.
Lola
Lola
Two elderly matriarchs bear the consequences of a crime involving their grandsons: one is murdered, the other is the suspect. F...
Lutaw
Lutaw
Like so many others in her remote area of the Philippines, Geramy must swim between the small islands in order to travel to the...
Magnifico
Magnifico
In this heartwarming family tale, a young boy's selfless gestures transform his family's many miseries into joy and acceptance....
Nagpapanggap
Nagpapanggap
Lourdes is a teacher, a mother and a wife. Always placing others first, she is determined to help the women around her. But f...
Niko: Journey to Magika
Niko: Journey to Magika
When Niko went to visit his grandparents in the Philippines for the summer, he knew he would be exposed to a different culture....
Prima
Prima
Alone in a brightly lit studio, a ballerina recalls her old choreography, leaping and spinning in front of an invisible audienc...
Second Place Audience Award Winner - Narrative
Second Place Audience Award Winner - Narrative
Family man Marlon Villar is the longtime chauffeur of prominent politician Manuel Chango. While he and his daughter accompany h...
Someone Else's War
Someone Else's War
In the background of the war in Iraq is an invisible army -- one that numbers more than 30,000, yet few Americans know about it...