Alvin Francisco

Teenager Henry begins longing for another life when he visits a mansion's construction site to seek compensation for his older brother's work injury.

A middle-aged gay couple resign themselves to a cheap motel in the midst of Manila's Christmas nighttime rush. Later, a lost present is found in the hands of a younger, mysterious stranger.

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; something breaks into her window and wakes her up from her Hollywood dream.

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.

A collection of OPM singer-songwriter Zack Tabudlo's most personal experiences. Those experiences are put into stories, stories put into songs, and songs brought to life through a series of fourteen music videos with different narratives about love, heartbreak, happiness, and loneliness. Collectively, these are narratives that demand the viewer to feel, to confront, and to heal.

Different students from a high school cleaners group each deal with different pressures of being clean and pure while also discovering that the world is dirty and superficial to begin with.

Sid is a guy who suffers from insomnia. Through the many lonely nights, he meets Aya. Who is she, really? And how will she change Sid’s life?

Ellenya's life revolves around social media just like a typical millennial; seeking validation from the online society. With aspirations of being a big influencer and vlogger, she chases her dreams by creating a persona and content with the help of her family and friends. Will Ellenya earn online fame or will she be an epic fail?

A widowed billionaire's ten mistresses fight tooth and nail to become his new legal wife. But when he suddenly turns up dead, all ten women end up being prime suspects.

Two strangers walking in a circular road find themselves in another place where they have to drift in the middle of who they are and who they want to be.

Set during the launch of the first space shuttle of the Philippines - an ordinary old couple living in the suburbs attempts to go about their life during this strange day.

Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib Apostol finds himself looking for his best friend Tric Torres back in high school. Guided by a map his best friend made for him, Tib attempts to visit each place around his hometown to retrace memories of his friendship with Tric.

Years after mining operations began, a once rugged and undisturbed town changes drastically. Koi, 22, returns home for the first time since leaving for college, and does so with an infected ear. He joins his mother Tonet in waiting for his father, both of them clueless as to whether his father could make it home alive after an accident in the extraction tunnel. As Koi reconnects with his hometown in slow decay, he fears the impending possibility of losing both his father and his hearing. Part fiction, part experiment, and purposefully blurring the distinction, Here, Here is a loose visual study on landscapes and terrains, both natural and beyond.

A special little homeless girl travels about the Philippines curing the afflicted with her mysterious healing powers, until one day she befriends a sick old man who for some perplexing reason she is unable to cure. The unlikely pair are drawn to each other and their lives are forever changed by their unique friendship and magical journey together.

A young girl's reality is intruded when her father who's been away abroad for almost a decade suddenly comes home as an animated doodle figure.

A man’s belief in reality is tested when suspects are accused of a crime they believe to not have committed.

Joshua, a timid teenager, comes home one night after beaten up by the school's bully. Feeling the urge to avenge himself, he decides to take matters into his own hands. But things don't go as planned. Now, he is left with no choice but to seek help from his policeman father.

The unfinished movie of the late Celso Ad Castillo now a Cinema One Originals documentary film.

A prepubescent boy slowly learns of his special role in the impending apocalypse during a religious camp. As he participates in the camp activities, he gets confused between constantly emerging fantasies and his divine calling.

NBI agent Anton Dela Rosa discovers that he possesses an innate ability to view crimes from the perspective of a killer accompanied by erratic sociopathic tendencies, just like his serial killer father known as the Cattleya Killer.