"Sino ba ang totoong balbal?"
Under pressure to sell their land to a contractor, Ramon seeks his wife’s counsel, and a devastating truth begins to unravel.
Social & External
The people behind it
Skim Guevarra
Ramon
Lhocel Tabilog
Luz
A chance encounter dangerously intertwines the lives of three people with differing perspectives on love.
Bob is a busboy, complacent with working his dead-end job. When his boss tells Bob that he is moving up in the company, the older, quiet cook, Lewy, opens up to Bob and shows him that there is more to life than cleaning tables.
Two apprentice violin makers are in love with the same girl, who happens to be the daughter of their mentor. A violin competition is scheduled, with the winner being the one who will marry the girl.
Spain, March 1939. The war is dying down. At the Port of Alicante thousands of people are piling, waiting for the arrival of ships that will carry them to exile. Moored, the freighter Stanbrook is witnessing the desperation.
Nahal breaks her arm in a fight at school. A man claims she hit someone while riding a motorcycle and fled the scene because she didn't have a permit. Nahal claims the CCTV will show that she hurt her arm at school.
After his wife’s death, a man is interrogated by the State. Returning to a dystopic, totalitarian life, he weighs stifling his grief against leaving it all behind. A call leads an official to help him find his beloved.
Christina wakes up in the middle of nowhere without remembering how she got there, but after a long walk she meets El Tiempo, a mysterious being who seems to know a lot about her and who, by giving her answers, will create greater questions about herself and about what she wants in life.
Dr. Luján discovers that he is performing surgery on the person responsible for ruining the daughter of his life, so he decides to take revenge.
In the everyday life of the bus, the world still hopes to find warmth.
Alejandro begins to be stalked by an entity, which will change his life completely.
When religious tradition becomes a threat to Bhutan's Nature, one man braves society and sets out on a mission to change the minds and hearts of the locals.
Boris and Hugo, 16-year-old friends, arrive at Hugo’s parents’ apartment. They have bought a gun. They set up a livestream video on the internet and announce that in one hour they will commit suicide. While Boris is sure about the decision, Hugo still has his doubts. In the final moments of their lives, sadism, homoeroticism, and destructive desire are released.
When a northeastern brazilian worker, Filismino, is forced to move to the big southeastern metropolis of São Paulo, the northeastern grim reaper is forced to go there and kill him.
Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would prefer him to be involved in more ‘manly’ pursuits and decides to take action. It is left to Mickey, a ferret with the cutest nose and the sharpest teeth, to sort out the men from the boys.
Pedro, 30 years old, a young worker, is awarded a trip that will make two of his big dreams come true. When he tells his friends Dite, Rafa, and André, he realizes his dreams are being diluted by the lack of listening from his friends and conversations that lead nowhere.
Jeanne and Walid are two disillusioned high school students who, to escape their anxiety, spend their days hanging out at the foot of a business district. It's into this world that Axel, the boy who makes Walid's heart beat, joins them, transforming the evening into an adventure tinged with desire, tension and transgression. A nocturnal experience that sheds light on the complexities and desires of contemporary youth, in a setting that is both raw and fascinating.
A young woman confronts her aggressor and hits back where it would hurt the most.
Eun-Seo who came to US misses her father back in Korea. In her dream, her father teaches her how to pray in order to overcome fear. As her mother, Seo-Hyun, hears that Eun-Seo doesn’t get along well with her classmates, she decides to throw her American Birthday Party. Seo-Hyun makes Eun-Seo invite her friends but the invitation card that Seo-Hyun made for her is too childish so her friends make fun of her. Embarrassed, Eun-Seo rebels against her mother but she is too weak to win over her mother. In strained atmosphere, they stop at the gas station where Eun-Seo hears the bad news to her father...
Desperate to escape his past, a troubled telegraph operator must face his memories of a helpless sailor as they come knocking back to haunt him.
Silence is absolute and time dilates as we lose ourselves in an unpredictable space among non-existent places.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
In this Oscar-winning short film, grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.