Maki Makilan

A timid teenage boy falls into a hollow void with people who constantly ridicule him. He tries to escape confrontation but seems to be stuck in his chair.

A film by Gaby Marcial

Reyna, head of the school choir and daughter of the Parish Office Chair is rattled once her meticulously orchestrated music group is disrupted by the spontaneous and unorthodox new pianist, Sam.

While on an out-of-town birthday party, Bianca, an only child to a single father, receives a phone call about her father’s sudden passing. She spends the next 12 hours arranging the logistics of his funeral while tackling the feeling of an unexpected profound loss.

Fifty years into a Philippines riddled with rising prices and scarcity in local produce, a person travels to the wet market to look for ingredients. These ingredients transpose to random household objects while cooking until the person serves a dish scrambled with the most bizarre objects you could think of.

Two girls, both desperate to be understood, navigate the push and pull of a single night after one of them overdoses on antipsychotics. They spend the entire night filling their conversations with negotiations between life and death, between memory and oblivion.

A Black Beret 2023 entry by Bane Vicente in partial fulfillment for their directing class under John Dalog Torres.

After their high school friend's wake, two best friends decide to 'pagpag' as they reconnect after five years.

A film by Fea Fortuna

A silly bromance sparks out of the closeness of two laidback high school boys, Maki and Kaloy. When a night of reckless drinking with their friends leads them to share a bed together, they discover the true nature of their bromance and now must decide whether to embrace this or risk losing each other's friendship.

Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by a plausible saleslady in a very unusual IT retail shop.

Coming back home after thirteen years, a 16 year old is forced to remember what little she knows of home when her mother decides to run away. In a grueling road trip with her estranged grandmother, in a place that she has long forgotten, she soon realizes that she isn't the only one looking for a mother.

In late 2040s Manila, Wax and Phil’s dying relationship is shaken by a family member's transient arrival. As they accommodate this estrangement, they find a final push to retrace an old desire—to feel.

In the Bagong Lipunan Negros Island, Philippines of 1985, a family of dumaan farmers and their community faces a brutal threat of the Amomonggo. While the community struggles for their rights and safety, the Magbuelas family is haunted by the tragic loss of their first-born Isio in Escalante and the trouble of preserving the childhood life of their remaining child Ani.

It’s the last day of high school. Three misfits: Mike, Jeremy, and Marie are tasked to edit the graduation video. As they review the footage, their batchmate’s video contains a confession that their principal harassed her. The group has to decide whether or not to expose the issue as each deals with their own secrets.

On the eve of his eviction, William's life fractures into three possible futures, each revealing a different gamble of survival.

Luna, Sol, Kenok, Anna, and Tonton arrive at their usual hangout spot, an abandoned building full of trash and graffiti. They make it a point to enjoy the night and forget about the things that happened before. After a couple of drinks, the five friends play charades, cards and some party games. Luna then suggests that they play bang-sak to reminisce about their childhood, all of them agree. But this game took a dark turn as the night progresses.

40 years after having to marry a white man, Angie is deported and reunites with her ex, Badine. As they revisit the places buried by urbanization, they unearth the past and rekindle their love.

In fantasising about their future and basking in their illusions of success, two college freshmen wrangle with the problems of the present as the ghosts of the future haunt them.

Just as she was about to give up on her pursuit of companionship, traumatized, nine-year-old Sol meets and befriends a forest spirit on her tenth birthday, making way for an exploration of healing, identity, and desire in the remaining days before she enters a new school.

RAMPAGE! (or the parade)