Red String

In a world of chaos, wars are not the only battle present in the chambers of reality; our minds are our greatest enemy. Is it her or someone she has kept long-hidden? Gula, the restlessness of the soul, presents the indefinite cycle of ups and downs as we try to uncover the tiring process of finding ones' self and identity -- the discovery of the different layers of who we are in order to reach enlightenment.

a film by Cis De Luna

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

Estranged friends Kia and Maria face an unexpected reunion in the chapel of their old all-girls' Catholic school, where they are forced to redress feelings left unspoken in their mutual fixations on the Virgin Mary.

When Dino, an OFW returning home for good, appears only as a projection, he and his 21-year-old son Gino — seen as the child he once was — relive the ordinary moments migration denied them and finally confront their grief for the mother they lost.

A barangay avoids hell through a yearly sacrifice of a child. Desperate to make peace with her friend's death six years ago, Mads takes the matter into her own hands.

With merely a fragment of an old poster, Candy Wong, a second generation Filipino-Chinese teenager, searches for an image of her mother, a deceased actress, across 1990s Binondo, only to gradually learn about the discarded legacy of the cinema she grew up loving.