A Pencil to the Jugular

The Milk Man, a psychopathic murderer who preys upon women. Pinoy Boy, the world’s deadliest Filipino who is tasked with tracking him down. Angelo, the filmmaker who created them and is struggling to find an ending as the lines between his reality and the film blur. Underground auteur Matthew Victor Pastor, aka MVP, attacks racism, gender, love and serial killing in his most free-form, assured, challenging film to-date; the final chapter of his Filo-Aus Trilogy.

Set sometime in the not-too-distant future, after the worldwide crisis of 2020, Mandy is a 17-year-old Filipino Australian. In her final year of high school and dealing with her parents impending divorce, she navigates a world driven by a new normal of isolation and fear. Added to this she has a crush on her tutor Serena. Meanwhile, a young girl from the backstreets of Manila tells her story.

It’s Valentine’s Day, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. A Vietnamese prostitute named Pisces is conned to her cocoon. She searches for true love, and the search which will define her.

In this striking meditation on the Australian migrant community, a Filipino teenager follows his mother through the bleak landscape of Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

Sammy is a teenager with disenfranchised violent men all around him. Kate watches Sammy from across the hall of their commission flats. This is the story of their inevitable demise. Based on the creator child abuse and funded through screen Australia diversity fund.

Masculinity, race and boyhood simmer in this stylish slow-cinema debut about a Filipino-Australian father and his six-year-old son, who are navigating a family divorce. Exploring the complexities of family, society and culture that shape young Filipinos, this feature debut from rising filmmaker Caleb Ribates depicts the tender relationship between an immigrant father and his young son as they deal with being abandoned by the boy’s mother. With its evocative black-and-white cinematography, long takes and naturalistic dialogue, Anak follows in the footsteps of slow-cinema masters like Lav Diaz and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, while finding an intimacy and tonal register that is all Ribates’ own.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A boy sits in a run down hotel. A girl rides a motorcycle through the darkness. This is their story.

There is a video of racist attack filmed in Melbourne and posted on Tik Tok. The viral video with millions of views and thousands of hate comments sends the filmmaker who filmed the incident into an existential crisis. This is his story.

Ria and Amos are married Filipino migrants who are having their Australian VISA processed amidst the housing crisis and unprecedented increases to cost of living in 2025. Due to work commitments, they live a long drive away from each other. Struggling with rent, agent fees and the financial commitment it takes to build a pathway to permeant residency, Ria receives a phone call that will make the road forward much more difficult to travel.

As a nation votes to discover its identity, a family struggles to find its own.

Set in Australia, Love with the Poet is an experimental visual feature based on five poems that reflect youth loneliness.

Presented in Glorious Cinema – O – ke! A feminist documentarian, a pickup artist, and a virgin’s lives collide. Aries Santos is a Fil-Aus feminist documentarian who is struggling to complete her new film. Her subjects are the male members of ‘©TRU MALE DYNAMICS’, a company formed to teach men how to seduce women. Meanwhile, a sex worker named Melody slays into the night. The line between reality and fiction blurs, and blood is shed on the neon-lit streets of Melbourne.

A young man stands naked facing the audience. He is Asian. This is MADE IN AUSTRALIA.

A Bigger Jail is a psychosexual thriller about a murderer released from prison and a young married couple with a secret fetish. Set over the course of 3 days their paths will cross through the intimacy of sex and violence, with consequences that will leave them changed forever.