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In a remote town full of secrets and mysteries, a young man faces controversy after his secret relationship with a politician’s daughter is exposed. He must confront harsh consequences filled with deception, revenge, and unexplained events.

The film is about Carlo, a man in his mid 20s, trapped in abusive relationship and tries to escape from his live in partner Anna, for a better change.

A romantic drama centered around a husband, a wife, and a cheating incident that builds up to other conflicts in their relationships and their evening drive.

A 19th century woman named Salome, whose identity has been shrouded in myth and legend, becomes the center of a cult that has polarized a community. Like a jigsaw puzzle, a town pieces together myth, memory and aspirations to know the woman that has captured everyone’s imagination.

In Age of Blight, 12 Asian filmmakers capture and imagine life under the pandemic, from the hospital corridors of Marawi to protest rallies in the streets of Bangkok. The film mirrors light amidst the chaos and darkness, life in the face of death. Participating filmmakers are Mervine Aquino (Philippines), Bagane Fiola (Philippines), Daniel Rudi Haryanto (Indonesia), Hassanodden Hashim (Philippines), Gladys Ng (Singapore), Nontawat Numbenchapol (Thailand), Carla Pulido Ocampo (Philippines), Edmund Telmo (Philippines), Mark Lester Valle (Philippines), Ligaya Villablanca (Philippines), Takayuki Yoshida (Japan), and Abdul Zainidi (Brunei). Edited and assembled by John Torres (Philippines).

Richard, an architecture student, is suffering from the traumas of his past experiences. This creates a cognitive complication that affects him and allows him to meet his own selves for the first time.

Jim, a visually impaired guy from Ozamis goes to Manila and meets Estelle, who stays beside his isolation room in a quarantine facility. Having only each other’s company, their conversations become deeper and deeper until Jim finds himself in love with Estelle. The day that their quarantine ends, Estelle reveals her true identity to Jim, who knew all along that she was homosexual.

The film follows Sab, a transporter for local drug cartels. Amidst an imminent war between her superiors, Sab also deals with her dying grandmother's last wish that she bear a child. When Sab learns that she's barren, this leads her to darker practices and revelations. Markado: Bakunawa sa Duha Ka-Manglahing Takna is the first ever full-length film to be completely made and produced by local filmmakers from Cagayan de Oro city.

In Japan's quiet apartments, a Filipino kodokushi cleaner meets an elderly widower who asks him for one final favor before he dies. What begins as a promise becomes a quiet story of grief, family, and accepting life's impermanence.

Operation Holokaustus has killed all but one untouchable and he’s left alone in a hardly habitable planet because of the post-truth wars. When he tried to teleport to other planets, he opens communication with a fugitive scientist who happens to be the who preserved him.

The discovery of a mysterious alien shell in a trench transforms the lives of two star-crossed lovers, Paleng and Eliong, and their threatened coastal village in Davao City, unearthing secrets deeper than the surrounding perilous waters.

On the longest day of the year, the Blessed Virgin of Cotta will return to its home in the city. It's also on this very same day that two women one a novice nun who'll take her vows and the other, an insomniac on her way to forgetfulness, and whose mother is about to be executed will defy the fates with their mundane desires.