REKRUT BY DANNY AÑONUEVO
What is the measure of true friendship? Jamir, a devout Muslim from Tawi-tawi, and Lando, a Christian raised in urban Cebu, are among an elite group of young recruits formed by military officers for a classified operation. These impressionable young men undergo intense and grueling training that will test their strength of character. Amidst the hardships, Jamir and Lando set aside their differences and become friends. But what happens when the institution they have sworn to protect becomes the wedge that will tear their brotherhood apart?
SI TECHIE, SI TEKNOBOY AT SI JUANAB by ARTHUR KATIPUNAN
Techie and Jay, both OFWs from Qatar, decide to come home for two weeks to get married. Unknown to Jay, Techie is nurturing a plan to meet her virtual lover, Teknoboy, before her wedding day. The story unfolds when Techie connives with her high school best friend, Juana, a TV writer turned struggling indie filmmaker, to be with Teknoboy. The two women journey through Pinoy cyber culture and its many facets — online romance, PSP addiction, Facebook reunion, hi-tech baptismal party, 3G doctor, digital wedding, cyber sex — in the process discovering many things about their lives, dreams and the society they live in. The evolution of cyber Pinoys and how relationships unfold in the middle of a hi-tech society form the core of this film.
VOX POPULI (SIYA ANG MAYOR KO) by DENNIS N. MARASIGAN follows a woman candidate for mayor in a small town on the last day of campaign. To ensure her win, she will need to secure the support of voters and financiers who may have varying, and even conflicting, desires and agendas.
SAMPAGUITA NATIONAL FLOWER by FRANCIS PASION is a film that chronicles the journey of the sampaguita flower from the time the buds are plucked in the province to the time they are sold in the city. The story is told by the children who are involved in the different stages of the journey.
MAGKAKAPATID by KIM HOMER GARCIA is a story about a family that drifted apart due to socio-economic differences. Three siblings, three narratives, one tragedy, wherein a brother kills his own brother, a father struggles to accept a daughter’s marriage, and a daughter who could not mourn. In a situation where even traditions can’t pull them together, a tragedy drags them together.
MAYOHAN by DAN VILLEGAS AND PAUL STA. ANA is set in Infanta, Quezon, where locals turn each of the 31 days of May into a charming honor not only to celebrate good harvest in their agricultural area, but also to pay tribute to the virginal virtues of Mary, mother of Christ.
LEAVING by IAN-DEAN S. LOREÑOS
Everything is changing, leaving, and returning. There is always a constant transience in this world. This is the premise of “THE LEAVING (離別)”, a raw representation of the social, moral, and cultural scenario of the new generation of “Tsinoys”. THE LEAVING (離別) sets in a neo-Chinatown in Manila where the “Tsinoys” (Filipino-Chinese) struggle with the diminishing of their culture. We follow three intertwining stories (MARTIN, The LOVER, WIFE) that leave elements on the other stories such that they are all connected.
LIMBUNAN by GUTIERREZ “TENG” MANGANSAKAN II captures the ritual motions of the women in a family preparing for the wedding of seventeen-year-old Ayesah who is betrothed to a man she barely knows.
HALAW by SHERON DAYOC centers on an illiterate Badjao, Jahid and his 9-year-old daughter Daying as they illegally cross the border of the Philippines and Malaysia through the southern backdoor. Determined to reunite with his wife, he leaves behind everything they have in Jolo to search for his lost wife in Sabah where an uncertain future awaits him. He meets Hernand, who poses as a war photographer as he is drawn into the world of white slavery across the sea border. The two meet as they board the pump boat to the nearest Island of Sabah.
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