Cleaners

After getting disposed of, a facemask starts to turn into a humanoid figure while looking for its previous owner. It then wanders around different places in Manila and starts an adventure.

In the small town of Pagadian, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.

The news of Patricia’s sudden death disrupts the lives of her friends. After several years apart, they have to meet back together to pay their last respects to their dearly departed.

At a family-run restaurant in Ilocos, Jorge, a privileged young man, is forced to work alongside Kiko, a street-smart newcomer hired by Jorge's grandfather, Tino, a retired sakada. When Tino suddenly dies, the two discover a hidden cigar box filled with unsent letters and photographs that reveal a decades-old love story between Tino and his best friend, Bong - a bond shaped by migration, forgetting, and sacrifice. As Jorge and Kiko piece together this lost history, their own relationship begins to shift. Set across generations and rooted in Ilokano culture, the series is a quiet exploration of class, intimacy, and the legacies we inherit - and choose to carry forward.

Teenager Henry begins longing for another life when he visits a mansion's construction site to seek compensation for his older brother's work injury.

Set largely within the confines of a hospital ward, the film follows a crisis involving long-time partners Neil and Bong. When Bong falls severely ill, the situation forces a reunion with his estranged parents, Benjie and Gloria, bringing long-standing family rifts and unspoken truths to the surface.

A middle-aged gay couple resign themselves to a cheap motel in the midst of Manila's Christmas nighttime rush. Later, a lost present is found in the hands of a younger, mysterious stranger.

The story follows the lives of different people who occupy a single room in an apartment across various points in time. By overlapping these different timelines and generations of tenants within the exact same physical space, the film explores themes of impermanence, memory, and shared history.

After losing both parents, two brothers search the skies for solace and clarity. Could the answer be really out of this world?

On unearthing the identity that we've buried in the efforts to level ourselves with cultures that are not our own: In the struggle to move forward, we’ve been misled into situations causing us to be pitted against one another, and ultimately we end up losing our land, our way of life, and our identity. Yet our rich and beautiful culture is still inside of us is just waiting to be heard. If only we could realize that acknowledging and learning from our roots could contribute greatly to attain true liberation and proper development as a nation.

Years of destruction to the rich, ancestral land, culture, and relationships in Nueva Vizcaya by a large-scale foreign mining company has divided the people, but has also summoned the collective strength of the mountains and the community to rise up. The Didipio community of Twali-Ifugao indigenous people put their stakes in setting up a barricade and risk to continue the fight for their life, honor, and land.

In 2010, a group of high-school classmates reunite for a swimming trip, not knowing it’s the last one they’ll ever be fully together. A meditation on death and all things dying. A short film commissioned for the US video release of Cleaners.

In 1980s Bacolod, at the height of Martial Law, Teopisto—a principled yet warmhearted barber known for his strictness and gentle hands—works in a once-prestigious barbershop. Within its wall’s, customers from all walks of life reveal their quiet anxieties, loyalties, and doubts—turning each haircut into a glimpse of a nation in turmoil. As the conversations deepen and tensions rise, Teopisto’s long-held neutrality begins to crack as he is pulled into the very currents of change he once chose to ignore.

Kata, a former ornithologist, returns to a remote mountain in search of a rare endangered bird and to seek closure to the unexplained disappearance of her partner a decade prior. Accompanied by her current boyfriend and a local guide, the journey slowly reveals something more unsettling when the forest itself seems to echo, imitate, and remember.

a film by Jill Go-Soco

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