Karla Garcia

Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.

An artist is struck with a mysterious condition that fills up her lungs with water. As she is called to her imminent death, her sister serves as her salvation.

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.

A short thesis film by Karla Garcia.

A film by Kit Munsayac.

The daughter of an overseas Filipino worker is being haunted by a crow-like humanoid creature, the manifestation of her guilt and burden of life. While trying to run away from it, she eventually learns that the only way to stop the haunting is to embrace and accept the creature.

In 1980s Bacolod, at the height of Martial Law, Teopisto—a principled yet warmhearted barber known for his strictness and gentle hands—works in a once-prestigious barbershop. Within its wall’s, customers from all walks of life reveal their quiet anxieties, loyalties, and doubts—turning each haircut into a glimpse of a nation in turmoil. As the conversations deepen and tensions rise, Teopisto’s long-held neutrality begins to crack as he is pulled into the very currents of change he once chose to ignore.

In a 24-hour salon, two vampire women with history look back on their centuries-old memories, before one of them gets married to a mortal man.