Zed Xyrus Martin

An aged beautician longing for confidence joins a beauty pageant.

In a small barangay where a children’s game of teks reflects real power, Maya challenges Rod, the reigning champion turned tyrant, in a teks battle that could change the fate of their community.

In a world where goldfishes are a luxury, Kokoy, a fisherman’s son, is determined to own one.

In a remote village scarred by years of conflict, a young army lieutenant introduces football to children. As the game begins to heal wounds and rebuild trust, he forms a fragile bond with a child soldier — forcing both to choose between the innocence they’ve lost and the violent realities of war.

In a small rural town, 9-year-old Gelo comes up with a plan to earn enough money to buy his tricycle-driver father a day off—so he can watch Gelo perform a poem written just for him at the school’s poetry contest.

While Tonton is writing a poem dedicated to his father, his world suddenly crumbles when his father is killed in the midst of the brutal drug war. Forced to confront grief at a young age, he clings to poetry as a way of preserving the memories, sacrifices, and quiet love of the man he once saw as his superhero.