To Love and Not Be Loved

Can the relationship between two childhood friends cross over into romance? Young Love tells the tale of two boys whose true feelings for each other reveal themselves over the course of a simple game of basketball.

Meet Charlie and his mysterious new neighbour. One, a lover of plants the other a lover of handsome young men. Both are about to learn that love is not just about attraction and giddy romance —it’s about self-discovery, navigating the issues of inclusivity and acceptance... and unravelling the kind of love that yearns to be free.

A young hustler takes advantage of the love of a gay man, and pays consequences for it in the form of a demonic possession.

Being together for almost five years, Joan expects William to pop the question. They love each other. They live together. Marriage is the only thing that's missing. But for William, it's the hardest to give.

Lester, the star player of their community basketball team who dreams of playing at the country's premier league, but encounters a problem on the way to PBA (Philippine Basketball Association). He meets Pandy (Arnel Ignacio), a couturier who is smitten by Lester's looks. Pandy becomes the team's manager and helps him become part of the college's varsity team. Pandy is obviously in love with Lester, a straight guy devoted to his childhood sweetheart Denise (Sofia Valdez). Lester is at a loss when Pandy's love for him turns into an obsession.

Mikey is at the peak of his career as a chef, but to everyone's confusion, he remains single and unattached. Unbeknownst to them, beneath his manly and innocent good looks lies an insatiable, dark secret. Armed with a telescope, he spies on unsuspecting women inside condo units across his own. One fateful night, his sights catch onto Kim as she makes love to her rich middle-aged partner, Rudy. Their worlds collide when Kim and Rudy begins frequenting the posh restaurant Mikey co-owns. With a common desire to satisfy their needs, Kim and Mikey embark on a dangerous love affair that puts their lives in peril.

Is intimacy limited only to the physical? Two lovers discover the word's real meaning when a difficult setback befalls one of them.

Joy Belmonte and Boy Abunda Originals present A Trilogy of Love Stories that features gender sensitive short films dedicated to the memory of Bernardo Bernardo who stars in one of the short films. The three short are Young Love (starring Lorenzo Santiago and Rahcir Tan), A Love Story in the Time of HIV (Christian Bables and Aaron Rivera), and To Love and Not Be Loved (Eian Rances and Bernardo Bernardo). To Love and Not Be Loved is also Bernardo Bernardo's last work for cinema.

A story set in a coastal Quezon town where the mundane lives of a grieving widow, her socially-handicapped son and a helpless grandfather interconnect to create bumps in their flatline lives.

An itinerant tattoo artist joins a talent reality show for lesbians in the hopes of winning the prize money that will enable her to get artificially inseminated and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a mother.

Three periods interconnect the life experiences and teachings of Anastacia Giron-Tupas while transposing her story into the lives of her contemporary counterparts. Anna Formantes strives to uphold the personal and professional values of Anastacia Giron Tupas, sacrificing her happiness for education, better degrees and experiences, community advocacy, and advancing nursing standards.

"Paquil" tells the story of Christina, a once-celebrated actress who, after experiencing several career flops and being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, returns to her hometown of Pakil. This town holds deep childhood memories for her and is known for the long-lost tradition of Komedya, a local theatrical performance. Now at a crossroads in her life, Christina becomes determined to revive this cultural art form as she grapples with her fading health and inner struggles.

Five brokenhearted LGBTQ individuals will be given a chance to heal in the most beautiful places, and there’s a million-peso prize at the end. Can they stay single and prove to everyone that their lives will still go on? Or will their hearts open up to loving once more?

Three generations of teachers. Three stories of dedication, struggle, and inspiration interweaved. Iah, Espie, and Gennie will prove that being an educator does not end inside the four walls of their classrooms.

Intoy has had the hots for Doray since they were kids in Kalye Marino, Cavite City, formerly the American Naval Base in Sangley Point. Both marginalized as the long-lasting effect of American abandonment of the said base, Intoy has become Kalye Marino’s best “tahong” caretaker-with-no-angst-about-poverty, while Doray a cheap prostitute-with-no-guilt, tending to her siblings’ needs. Intoy strives to have his own cages of “tahong” so he can have Doray, not for just a night of quickie sex, but forever. But what will he do to when she offers to drop by his hovel-on-stilts to quench his passion, but before it happens Nature has chosen to play a joke on his tahong cage? Will it be goodbye to his tahong business or to his damsel-in-distress and ultimately to Kalye Marino? From Eros S. Atalia’s 2001 Palanca Grand Prize-winning Short Story, Intoy Syokoy ng Kalye Marino is a love tale minus the obligatory romantic sentiments.

Mina, a bubbly and hopeless romantic who’s a certified NBSB. Her best friends, Chem and Eya Determined to give Mina the love life she’s been missing out on and decide to look for the perfect boyfriend for her within 52 weeks.