Bryan Jimenez

A thriller about a never-ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm, and the woman caught in between.

An ordinary person is still haunted by his past experience due to his war trauma.

Compounded with poverty in a rural area, couple Bebeng and Dandoy are motivated to raise funds to support their nine-year old daughter, Inday, chosen to represent her school for a quiz bee in the city. Danday harvests their cultured crabs earlier than its due just to raise the needed amount.

Set in Mindanao during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, two young siblings desperately try to escape a ruthless group of Japanese soldiers. With nothing but a live chicken, their last hope is to reach a band of pragmatic, deal-making, rage-fueled guerrilla fighters for help.

A story of a young man trapped in regrets and extreme melancholy after he discovered his current condition while working in a mining tunnel.

This documentary tells the story of "professional gatecrashers" living off from occasion after occasion - weddings, funerals, fiestas - just so that they could sustain their meal for the day.

In a small town, there lives a single mother Beron, 48 years old whose livelihood is weaving abaca used in making slipperss, bags and decorative items.

A middling cemetery caretaker Pido (Rommel Mahinay) is a happy go lucky person and perceives life as it is, taking everything lightly and contented with what he had. Fate starts to get bristly when his wife dies and later stricken by illness because of being an alcoholic. With no one to help him, and his illness getting worst, the solitary Pido struggled every day to live his lonely life. As he grows weaker, and knowing it was only a matter of time before he dies, Pido decided to end his misery by burying himself alive.

A young unwed mother has her newborn child adopted by an aunt who grow up longing for her true mother.

A depiction between a wrong doer and the authorities with questionable characters. A moral question arises when a Maguindanawon housewife, Nhorsida whose hardpressed life forced her to peddle drugs was arrested with his innocent husband by the police. The couple while simply walking along a busy street but on the way to deliver the illegal substance is suddenly man-handled by the police. Despite the absence of a buy bust operation, the police claims and makes up a story of a drug trade. Reports in the news declare the couple having been arrested through a buy-bust operation, when no buy-bust took place. They then divide the supposed fee of Nhorsida for running drugs for Amira, like spoils of war and leave only a small portion to be declared as marked money.

Wagas is a story of a man who struggled with the loss of his loved one and how acceptance brought him peace.

In a modern life captured in the heart of a Valley, one peculiar family used to live in the same old state of living because of the far reaching place of their house location. Mang Dencio, the father, was a ten – year widow who used to sell a smashed banana using the traditional tool, “Lusong and Alho” (mortar and pestle), to support his child Nene. Their lives turn complicated when the head of the family Mang Dencio made horrible mistake that will twist their lives into shattered nightmares.

In a remote area of bucolic town Nabunturan, Bodong, a young lumad boy stumbled upon a river full of free gold. Though trying to keep the location of the area to him, Bodong’s life begins to complicate when his friend Alec starts to confront him about the site. Inner greed starts to brew between the two as they fight even to death to take control of the boundless treasure.

The film Supot is anchored to the saying “The only limit to human restraint is his unfathomable will to persevere.” It would be a way to inspire not only teachers considering that the lead actor of this film is a teacher himself and the film was inspired by his real life story. It would undoubtedly give inspiration to people of all walks of life to never surrender amidst life adversities as we relate the message of this film which is centered to the unfathomable will of a person to persevere in every challenge set before him. Being the source of such inspiration is somehow a noble undertaking that no amount of money can buy.

It was late afternoon, Andy going home from school riding on a dirt bike; three of his classmates blocked him, the reason why he stumbled. Afterwards, they grab his bag throwing all his things, and mauled him with threat, that he will expect the worst from them.