Biyernes Biyernes
One city, one day, seven stories. The first of seven Binisaya Exquisite Corpse Experiment
Remton Siega Zuasola
Idden de los Reyes
Christian Linaban
Keith Deligero
Bambi Beltran
Donna Gimeno
Norbert Elnar
Also Directed by Remton Siega Zuasola
The day before he retires, Anselmo, the church bell ringer, remembers his first love, Agnes.
A rebel group camp in the mountainous area of the Visayan Region is seized by the army. All the members of the rebel group are captured except for young Lito, also known as "Ninja Boy," famous for his extreme agility and knowledge of the terrain. He is the last rebel left to be caught.
A chef is held responsible for the food poisoning of several foreign dignitaries. That night, after putting his daughter to bed, he caresses the favorite curtain of his recently deceased wife.
"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 kidnapped and the criminals demand him to steal another kid in exchange of his son's life.
A mail-order bride on her way to her dreams.
Telling stories to the trees
a 30-minute short film about meeting someone new and falling in love. Deeply depressed and heartbroken, Marvin is forced by his brother to use a love potion so that his aching heart would be cured. While dining at a dumpling stall, 'Siomai Sa Tisa' (Siomai Of Tisa), he meets a pretty nursing student. After having a short conversation, he feels mysteriously drawn to her so he tries to use the love potion to win her heart. Will the love potion work, or will their love take its course even without it?
Desperately finding ways to support their sickly child, Noel and Liza welcome a new addition to their family, Ben, a rich foreigner who is hoping to build a family of his own. Together they play the game of deceit and make believe, but the truth is far from being hidden as the soap operas they consume daily that vividly mirror what they have been hiding all along.
Also Directed by Idden de los Reyes
A young boy living in Cebu’s busiest public market, Carbon, murmurs about his environment, family and dreams.
Also Directed by Christian Linaban
Olivia, who sells knives for a living, develops a romantic obsession over her next door neighbor.
Maya, a 13 year old cyberporn model, is abducted by a hideous river monster. She manages to escape and returns home to tell her mother, Claire, about it. Claire thinks her daughter is lying and in a fit of anger pushes the poor girl down the stairs. That night Maya sneaks out while her mother is asleep and returns to the monster waiting for her at the river. Days later after Maya was buried, Claire unearths her daughter’s grave only to find no dead body inside the coffin - only flowers.
A young man is on a quest to find a mythical strain of cannabis called the SUPERPSYCHOCEBU. Along the way, he meets characters that appear to have lost their minds after trying it, one of them even possessed by the Devil, at which point he starts questioning whether he’s in for some good weed or just one hell of a bad trip.
Two frenemies encounter one misfortune after another.
A Filipino-American boxer on a pleasure trip, a prostitute on a mission, a local drug dealer experimenting with time travel, and a social climber all cross paths in Cebu, the beautiful Philippine southern island, in this deliriously imagined occult superhero movie.
Also Directed by Keith Deligero
Two young girls travel through time to assassinate a barangay dictator to revise history. This is Babylon.
Two cops, an artist, a series of murders and some weird shit. Welcome to the new world after the pandemic.
This is the life of Divino Maligalig as he walks through the valley of the shadow of death
A filmmaker’s reflection about his life during the pandemic, as "the flames are climbing up the wall."
Stories abound in Cebu about a woman rumored to be a murderous monster, but behind the myth is a mother seeking justice.
A bottle of shampoo dreams to be purchased by humans and live in a utopia known as Atlas. However, he discovers the truth about this existence so she goes on a journey to escape his fate.
One day, in the small peaceful town of Barrio Malinawon, seven young punks, who call themselves the Iskalawags because of their shared love for Filipino action movies (particularly those starred by their idol Jeric Raval), decide to set out on a mini quest to find the tree that according to Palot-the gang's de facto leader-bears the lone papaya fruit as large as the belly of Intoy's father.
In the southern Philippine city of Cebu, a troubled detective struggles to solve a series of grisly killings, while a deep conspiracy works to keep the truth just out of his reach.