The Night is Alive

Inside a crowded public market where everyone wears white masks, Lina quietly spends her days serving others through repetitive labor and silent acts of care. But the more she gives, the more invisible she becomes inside a community that no longer knows how to truly look at one another. Over the course of one emotionally exhausting day, a quiet child selling sampaguita flowers becomes the first person to recognize Lina not as a worker—but as a human being.

In the midst of organizing a high school prom, ABBY, the well-known picture-perfect student faces a dilemma that challenges not only the small town’s social norms but also her identity.

Tin is a young woman who is able to see her mother’s ghost (Ima) since she was little. As she wakes up in their provincial mansion, alone, Tin realizes that it is the day of her Dad’s death anniversary. She gets a mysterious visit from her boyfriend Ollie, the same day her brother JD calls her to announce that he is moving her out of their house. Despite their disagreement, JD visits Tin, and Tin must make the choice to finally move out–away from the house that started her grief.

What starts as a familiar roleplay between a Filipina and her American client mutates into something unsettlingly real.

After his mother dies, Adong, 21, consumes her fabled black chick and begins seeing her spirit. Unable to find a funeral home willing to take her body in, he sets out to burn her himself.