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PlaceFilipinas
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Bwakaw
2012
"Rene is a grumpy, aging gay man who lives alone with only an affectionate stray dog named Bwakaw to keep him company. Having only recently come out of the closet, he goes about his life constantly rewriting his will to reallocate his possessions to his ""friends"". While dodging the coffin that he...
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Naked Under the Moon
1999
A young woman recalls how her father (a fallen priest), her mother (a woman with a secret past) and her teenage sister returned with her to live in their ancestral home after the family business failed. She was plagued with mysterious problems of sleepwalking and began a romance with a young man...
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West Side Kid
2001
A young Filipino man named Hanzel Harana is murdered in Jersey City, a few hours from New York, and a Filipino police officer named Juan Mijarez investigates the crime. As Mijarez interviews the victim’s mother, girlfriend and friends, flashbacks appear of the young man in an immigrant Filipino...
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Evolution of a Filipino Family
2005
The experience of a farming family from the Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s declaration of Martial Law to his loss of power, told across several generations during the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the family’s members become active guerrilla fighters, while others simply work to make a living...
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Heremias Book One: The Legend of The Lizard Princess
2006
A small group travels by caravan and cow along country roads. One of its members, the middle-aged man Heremias, suddenly decides that he wants to live on his own. The film then follows him as he attempts to begin a new life as a community of one, entering into dialogue both with his fellow men and...
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Death in the Land of Encantos
2007
The poet Benjamin Agusan returns from years in Russia to his home village of Padang, which has been devastated by a typhoon. He finds his best friend and fellow poet Teodoro and his old love, the painter Catalina. They share poems and memories among the ruins and ongoing dangers, including a...
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Melancholia
2008
Three strangers meet and clash in a small town. One is a hesitant prostitute; one is a pimp selling sex shows; one is a nun seeking alms for the poor. All seem to be hiding things about themselves as they deal with each other, and all seem to have arrived from other places. Did these people know...
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Butterflies Have No Memories
2009
People drink out of despair with the lack of work in their impoverished town years after a Canadian mining company’s departure. Their feelings divide when the adult daughter of the company owner cheerfully returns to visit her childhood home. Her old friends, such as the innocent Willy, happily...
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Century of Birthing
2011
A Christian cult led by the forceful Father Tiburcio chants while baptizing new members. A cynical photographer observes the group and thinks about how to destroy it. Meanwhile, a filmmaker named Homer sits at his editing table, taking breaks to talk with an actress about his struggles to finish a...
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Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
2012
A young woman named Florentina, who is losing her memory, gathers up all the strength she has to tell the story of her life for listeners. Although she suffers at the hands of her abusive father, she finds solace in recalling spending time with her grandfather and sister, exploring a city by...
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An Investigation on the Night That won`t Forget
2012
Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco formed a pair of young film critics who were murdered during a burglary in their Quezon City home in September 2009. In this film, Tioseco’s best friend, Erwin Romulo, describes what happened after their deaths in one long, unbroken take. He raises his problems with...
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Norte, the End of History
2013
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country`s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable when something mysterious and strange starts happening to...
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Prologue to the Great Desaparecido
2013
The first “disappeared” person in the history of the Philippines was Andrés Bonifacio, father of the Philippine Revolution against colonial Spain, who was betrayed and murdered by Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo in 1897. Bonifacio’s wife, Gregoria de Jesús, then spent 30 days...
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Lukas the Strange
2013
Lukas is an awkward teenager coming to grips with his own initiation into manhood just when there is a movie shoot in their neighborhood. The story opens several nights before, when Lukas is told that he has a tikbalang, half-horse, half man, for a father. His father, Mang Basilio disappears in...
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The Bet Collector
2006
The film focuses on "jueteng", a game of numbers dating from when the Phillipines were a Spanish colony (1521/1898). The story describes three days in the life of Amelita, a bet collector. Although "jueteng" has been declared unlawful, she still collects bets from regular customers. One day she is...
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Be Movies: Progam 01
2005
Series that comprises seven provocative horror and morbid humor short films by the Philippine filmmaker and writer Khavn. The first short film is Can & Slippers, about a soccer player named Piling that uses flip-flops instead of cleats and a bottle of soft drink as a ball. The following short film...
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Be Movies: Progam 02
2005
Series that comprises seven provocative horror and morbid humor short films by the Philippine filmmaker and writer Khavn. The first short film is Can & Slippers, about a soccer player named Piling that uses flip-flops instead of cleats and a bottle of soft drink as a ball. The following short film...
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Independencia
2009
Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. An aging mother and her son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest and decides to bring her home. Years pass. The man,...
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Larger Than Life
2000
“Pig breeder has sex with daughter and granddaughter”. This news taken from a newspaper is the theme for a feature by a philippine film maker. Enthused over the idea, he goes in search of financing. When the filmmaker does find a prospective producer, he will agree to invest in the film only if...
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Closer to Home
1994
A poor family from the interior of the Philippines suffers through constant deterioration in health of one of their daughters, Luningning, who has a very weak heart and who urgently requires an operation in the U.S. The oldest sister Dalisay, in particular, is determined to find a solution....
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Melancholia
2008
Why is there so much sadness and so much madness in the world? Is happiness just a concept? Is living just a process to measure man’s pain? Alberta Julian and Rina struggle hard to find answers to these questions. To be able to fight pain they assume different personas as a coping exercise....
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The Masseur
2005
The main character is a young masseur in a gay sauna who, daily, goes over the same ritual with the clients. He strips them of their clothes, annoints their bodies, in preparation for the inevitable sexual relationship that is to follow. The routine is broken by the sudden death of his father, and...
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Serbis
2008
The Pineda family operates and lives in a run-down movie house which shows dated sexy double-feature films. As the rest of the members go about their daily activities, we get a glimpse of how they suffer and deal with each other’ sins and vices. Preoccupied with their personal demons, the family...
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Ways of the Sea
2010
The story of men and women who try to reach Malaysia illegally by boat from Mindanao, the southernmost island group in the Philippines, hoping for a better life in Sabah, in spite of the hardness of the process, and uncertainty of a true job. Among them, there is a prostitute who has already...