Esoterica: Manila

An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and...

'Pranot', a man with a beautiful female heart, grew up in a warm family. Although He had a female heart, her family agreed never interrupt or...

Four stories of "stupid love" make up this romantic comedy. A young man cannot forget his first love even though she's left him to study abroad and...

A Filipino-American gets an opportunity to audition in his hometown, but he must choose between staying true to himself and his culture or conforming...

Pandanggo has three stories with parallel themes converging in one event, the Kasilonawan Festival in Obando: a career woman learning to dance tango...

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different...

When her son gets critically injured in a car accident, a mother discovers that there's more to his relationship with his friend than she had thought.

A young woman tired of being the rebound girl makes rules for herself to avoid that situation. But she is immediately challenged when she makes a...

Mikey, a young, discreet, gay man from the affluent class, spends five years in a city jail while hearing his case for drug pushing. Inside prison,...

A woman returns to the village of Kagbunga in the Bikol region carrying the ashes of her only son via the old train that circles her universe like...

Two women in a remote Muslim community confront an escalating blood feud and reach deep into themselves in hopes to undo the feud stretching back...

A story of Ilyong, recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story, his death. Soon after,...