John Paul Bedia

Young lovers chase their big city dreams but get tested by lust, addiction, and the hunger for money. Will their love survive, or will reaching for their dreams tear them apart?

When a hopeless romantic transwoman matches with a seemingly perfect guy on a dating app, her chance at love takes a dark turn when he ghosts her, unraveling an intricate web of deceit, lies, and catfishing orchestrated by a sociopathic mastermind.

The Chanters is a comedy-drama film about Sarah Mae, a 12 year old school girl, the grand-daughter of the last chanter of the Panay Bukidnon tribe. She obsesses with pop culture and readies herself for the visit of a sensational TV star to her school. As she perfects her dance, her grandfather, Lolo Ramon suffers the onset of dementia. As her Lolo starts losing his precious memories, Sarah Mae is tasked to help him complete the last of the remaining 12 epics, their tribe’s vanishing tradition.

Laura accepts the role in this play to rebel against her mother. The director pushes her to bring out her vulnerability and anger, hoping they will show these emotions on stage.

A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy’s rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital grounds as his playground, not knowing that it will be his source of liberation in the end.

Two individuals ask questions about life and death over a game of beer pong.

When a CCTV is installed in an apartment, it starts to record their activities and show the tenant's private lives. It tells the story of Loida who is a lady guard, Gloria whose marriage has recently been annulled, Frank who is a married man and actively engaging into gay dating sites and Janet & Edward who are the new tenants hoping to make a clean start in their marriage.

A hardworking and loyal OFW, a chef from Dubai, returns home hoping to pursue his dream of owning his restaurant and starting his own life. However, he finds himself at odds with his family and their toxic tendencies, making him question “Where does sacrifice end and selfishness begin?"

Set in the roads of Manila, the rural, the sea, and the “underground”, the film tells the story of Leo, the son, forced to grant his dying mother’s request to accompany his estranged father, Barry, to come home.

The bustling and sweltering rugged intersection of Pasay Rotonda serves as the main setting for this story of interconnected fate and destiny. As a raging man's bullets strays into different directions, the fate of several different characters are sealed and determined. As the temperature rises, the tension escalates and the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end as each one struggles to survive and escape their inevitable end.

A guilt-ridden and disheveled taxi driver named Limuel Alcantara picks up a mild-mannered businessman named Emmanuel Lazaro as his last passenger for the night. Limuel's conspiracy to bring Emmanuel to the hideout of robbery gang leader Diego Gawaran takes a wrong turn. Their journey together from Manila to the foothills of Antipolo becomes a tension-filled and claustrophobic experience. The only way out of this seemingly eternal ride is to face their damnation.

An itinerant tattoo artist joins a talent reality show for lesbians in the hopes of winning the prize money that will enable her to get artificially inseminated and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a mother.

Two sex workers, a 17-year-old Gino and young mother Marie, are hired to do a pornographic film. The day before All Saints' Day, they travel to a remote location for the shoot. During the shooting, they are made to do acts to which they didn't agree. Feeling trapped and isolated, the two are pushed to the edge of their dignity.

A mischievous child arrives on an enigmatic island and learns the value of time and life as he finds his way back home to his father.

Mikey is at the peak of his career as a chef, but to everyone's confusion, he remains single and unattached. Unbeknownst to them, beneath his manly and innocent good looks lies an insatiable, dark secret. Armed with a telescope, he spies on unsuspecting women inside condo units across his own. One fateful night, his sights catch onto Kim as she makes love to her rich middle-aged partner, Rudy. Their worlds collide when Kim and Rudy begins frequenting the posh restaurant Mikey co-owns. With a common desire to satisfy their needs, Kim and Mikey embark on a dangerous love affair that puts their lives in peril.

Is intimacy limited only to the physical? Two lovers discover the word's real meaning when a difficult setback befalls one of them.

Niña and Niño move to the big city together and realize that life is anything but a bed of roses. They struggle to make ends meet as con-artists until an unexpected event changes their lives.

A group of influencers finds themselves trapped in a disappointing island resort. As the need to survive sets in, the island's mystery and the truth behind the invitation unravel.