Love and Death

They Call Me Joy

When asked for her real name, the feisty woman in a rural whorehouse would quip, "Ligaya. It means joy. And that's what I sell." Yet the small-town pr

1997

Layang Bilanggo

An aging assassin hides in a facility for abandoned senior citizens to protect a daughter he left years ago.

2010

Area

A story of an over-the-hill prostitute whose life savings are stolen during the Holy Week.

2016

Contestant #4

A young boy frequently visits an old man who lives alone, keeping him always in good company. One night, he chances upon the old man watching a dated

2016

Hondo

Mara is scared of water. She has a rare condition that keeps her from touching any forms of liquid. As a single mother, her only pearl is her frisky s

2016

If You Leave

Two amateur ghost hunters are hired to surveil an alleged haunted house. Nothing much happens. But just because you can’t see the patterns of strangen

2016

Papa's Shadows

Little Mia has a lot of questions about death even if she is only 7 years old. She has always heard about it but never fully understood it. And as she

2016

Sayaw sa Butal

Alona attempts to possess her heart's desire: a man who frequents her fantasies and the toilet of the Naga City bus terminal.

2016

Viva Viva Escolta

Consuelo, a ghost who has haunted Escolta for many years, finds a respite from her loneliness in Joey, a young man who has just died. As the two ghost

2016

Unfriend

On Christmas Day, 15 year old David finds out that his boyfriend, Jonathan has taken another lover. The discovery leads him on the brink of depression

2014

Best. Partee. Ever.

Mikey, a young, discreet, gay man from the affluent class, spends five years in a city jail while hearing his case for drug pushing. Inside prison, Mi

2016

The Sorrows of Sita

A woman returns to the village of Kagbunga in the Bikol region carrying the ashes of her only son via the old train that circles her universe like the

2016

Women of the Weeping River

Two women in a remote Muslim community confront an escalating blood feud and reach deep into themselves in hopes to undo the feud stretching back gene

2016

Purgatoryo

A story of Ilyong, recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story, his death. Soon after, he

2016

Mana

Amidst the vast sugar plantations of Negros in Southern Philippines, a matriarch lies in the throes of death. Her children rush home to confront the c

2014

The Fatima Buen Story

Based on an actual case, Fatima Buen Story mixes tabloid sensationalism with paranormal symbolism and features O’ Hara’s trademark qualities: sudden v

1994

Ishmael

An ex-convict who is ostracized by his neighborhood. Little does he know that this neighborhood he once knew is set to awaken his past. Ishmael decide

2010

2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten

Felix is a friendless achiever in high school whose life changes after the arrival of the half-American Snyder brothers, entangling him in their dark

2016

Lily

Stories abound in Cebu about a woman rumored to be a murderous monster, but behind the myth is a mother seeking justice.

2016

Malinak Ya Labi

It is a custom in some towns in Pangasinan to offer a life of an animal when constructing buildings, but one day during the town’s fiesta they discove

2016