Al-Owlah

In every station she passes through, Alliah finds in her dreams the weight of responsibility that she needs to fulfill as the breadwinner of their family. Resting is like a sin to her. Even though she carries the burden of obligations on her shoulders, she also needs a shoulder to lean on — to take a momentary rest, even just until the next station.

A nine-year-old boy, Kido, goes to meet his older sister at a protest camp fighting against the land grabbing of farmlands in Nueva Ecija—bringing her a frog and a squash as his simple gifts.

In a small provincial fish town, 13-year-old Unyok, a grieving fish port helper bullied by his peers, seeks belonging in a violent youth gang and faces a brutal initiation rite.

The quiet life of the dreamer Ka Benjie was shattered when he heard of the enrollment in the other village.

Dabid and his elder brother have a strained connection, due to their opposing views on what it means to be a man. Both of them are slowly trapped in their cages, fighting over their battles of sadness, and hiding behind the world’s prejudice that a man should never be vulnerable or weak.

Badi, suffering from lung cancer, and Thelma have an only child—a pig named Baby. Due to the need for medication, they reluctantly sell their beloved pig-child.

As quarrying operations on protected Mount Banahaw continue to aggravate the lives of the locals in Sariaya, Quezon, the call for urgent action to protect nature and the local’s culture intensifies.

When a budding girl is tasked with identifying the different parts of a flower, she unexpectedly confronts probing questions about her own body.