Jess Mendoza

In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community...

Set on the eve of a fictional inaugural of the Bangsamoro Government, the film revolves around Daud, a scion of a political dynasty who is reluctant...

A woman relieves the heavy burden from her past when she finally exacts revenge on the man who murdered her entire family.

A retired university professor who refused to leave his home in the campus despite an administrative order for eviction. With his whole life bearing...

"Swap" takes us to the internal conflict of a young father, torn between solving a crime and committing another crime when one day his only son is...

The film depicts the troubles of Jonas and his sisters Carmina and Tricia , who have moved to their family’s old farm after Jonas’ real...

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on...

A college heartthrob meets a college newbie - a challenge, a tension, a discovery, and a love that will change everything between them.

A high school princess is cursed by the geek whose affections she toyed with.

Set at the inauguration of the new President is the inter-woven tales of people dealing with daily lives: their relationships, desires and their...

A thriller about a never-ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm, and the woman caught in between.

Two years after she was raped, a woman agrees to meet with her rapist in the beautiful ruins of Intramuros. As they have the same blood type, her...

A tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.

The story of a day in the lives of two men in the city -both proud, indifferent, and bound by the confines of their milieu and their choices in life-...

A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous.

Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves...

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,...

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...

Police officers Bong and Roman investigate paranormal killings in ominous talahib grass fields, unraveling a chilling mystery.

After a turbulent squall in the night, villagers wake up to the astonishing sight of the sea that has turned red.

A priest is caught up in a situation, which will compel him to choose between the mandate of the church and his obligations as a citizen under the...

A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.

Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the groups leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy. As the two...

A disillusioned and suicidal Rizal, a cross-dressing Bonifacio gripped with paranoia, an ex-Katipunero who joins the US army to save his own neck,...

Kray, an underappreciated and underpaid stuntwoman, takes on one last job with her former gang only to be trapped in a hellish underworld.

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.

It is a trilogy which follows the story of three individuals must go through desperate measures to hide their secrets.

The Empire Hotel is a 30-year-old landmark in Macau's old quarter, inhabited by characters with their own stories and struggles. It is also Maria's...

The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa.

Set against the drug wars in the Philippines, Maria's husband is murdered in mysterious circumstances and is left to fend for her three children in a...

A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life...

Teban, a troubled teen who recently got out of jail for petty theft, moves to tenement 66 with his older brother Tony and cousin Ron-ron, hoping to...

Two unusually close friends share every aspect of their lives together. As their lives evolve, their bond remains the only constant.