My Gentle Surrender

A production thesis by Aimeery De Castro.

Manila, 2009. Thirteen-year-old Gino passes his time through television and phone games—until he discovers his father's stash of adult DVDs. When he catches sight of his father flirting with a bar girl in a seedy karaoke joint, Gino begins to question his father's authority and morality. But it's through an unexpected bond through catfishing Giliw, a trans woman from the same nightlife underworld, using his father’s identity, that Gino slowly confronts his longings, boundaries, and the tender confusion of growing up.

After a long night shift, a single mother comes home to her six-year-old daughter asking a question about her father that she wasn’t prepared to answer.

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.

A UP Cinema Arts Society portrait film in celebration of Pride Month 2023.

A film by Kit Munsayac.

Within the walls of a domesticated city, three Filipina PCOS warriors find themselves stuck in a loop of their nightmares from women’s hell. They try to claw their way out violently, only to discover that the sole escape route is to awaken themselves collectively from within.