Benjamin Gonzales Tolentino

Estela, an idealistic, call center slacker is mentored by Trevor, a pragmatic, senior agent. Their interaction develops into an unconventional...

A story set in a coastal Quezon town where the mundane lives of a grieving widow, her socially-handicapped son and a helpless grandfather...

The film is about the lives of simple folk caught between the crossfire of Kapitana accused of political patronage, and Patrol Kalikasan using the...

Infinite struggles among four men in their twilight years, confined in a hospice facility or home for the aged. Their gray hair grows and fades...

A promising young politician who’s running for the senate. He then meets a female spin doctor who helps in orchestrating his campaign and...

Sarah is a middle-aged woman who hustles as the sole breadwinner of her family of two. As she scrambles to teach online courses and meet her food...

In 1995 Las Vegas, a homesick cover band singer writes an original song to connect with her daughter who is growing up in the Philippines without her.

A woman runs her criminal syndicate all the while taking care of her family.

After a heartless firing triggers a chain of unfortunate events, Philo plots a meticulous revenge against retail mogul, Mother Molly, aiming to...

The movie features varied forms of love: family love, sibling love, puppy love, unrequited love, ruined love, prospering love, in denial love, jaded...

A college freshman pretends to be straight in order to get closer to his crush who is homophobe.

ISLANDS explores a cinematic journey of two astronauts. As they enter Earth’s atmosphere the structure transforms. The spacecraft becomes the...

A powerful and moving historical drama that tells the courageous story of three Filipino Catholic priests: Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and...

Michelle has a strange love story with her house by the bamboo grove, with which she developed a language, with things functioning as words only she...

As the city of Zamboanga celebrates the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, a couple tries to survive to survive the drought that has been wrecking havoc...

Elle, a young model new to the industry, arrives to the set of her first commercial job to discover that the initial idea was scrapped. A mysterious...

A gay couple realizes they aren't sexually compatible, so they look for a third man. But when betrayal and jealousy sneak in, their relationship...

A wedding planner who's never been in a relationship courts romance as she re encounters a high school crush.

A collection of OPM singer-songwriter Zack Tabudlo's most personal experiences. Those experiences are put into stories, stories put into songs, and...

Two best friends accidentally go viral by making up stories in their high school reunion.

After 8 years of marriage, a childless couple named Clark and Eileen meet a little girl who one day, came knocking at their door claiming to be...

In the cold west, Motel Acacia is tasked with exterminating immigrants by the government through a BED, haunted with the spirit of a Filipino tree...

A young hustler takes advantage of the love of a gay man, and pays consequences for it in the form of a demonic possession.

Three stories, one day in EDSA. An opportunistic entrepreneur develops a bond with a street kid trying to help him get to his business meeting in...

Harold a shy college student from the province who develops a close bond and a secret love for his friend AM, a rich city girl who is passionate...

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different...

A widowed billionaire's ten mistresses fight tooth and nail to become his new legal wife. But when he suddenly turns up dead, all ten women end up...

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

Chinggay, a jewelry shop manager, is one of the single women in their 30’s who feels the pressure to find love. She goes out on dates with men...

It tells the story of young lovers who tries to build a life together until career opportunities sends them to a different country where their...

In a tiny rural village in Argentina, Rita Lopez, a pious yet insatiably competitive woman, discovers that staging a miracle could be her ticket to...

Cinemalaya's first documentary in the full-length competition follows three women named Maria on a journey to seek truth and fight for justice as the...

When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle.

An Oxycontin addict fighting her urge to keep using.

An Asian American who looks for love in superficial and external ways. It's bittersweet because she doesn't end up finding what she wants, but makes...

When a hopeless romantic transwoman matches with a seemingly perfect guy on a dating app, her chance at love takes a dark turn when he ghosts her,...

Christine an Art Studies major student at University of the Philippines Diliman a smart and very ambitious who is in a relationship with a Biology...

A woman struggling to meet airline baggage requirements meets a man who comes to her aid. They form a friendship that helps them mend each other's...

A young woman who leads a lonely, mundane existence in the real world but who has the perfect life in her lucid dreams which she can somehow control,...

Surrounded by tensions and secrets, a teenage boy searches for validation and navigates life with a dysfunctional family following an HIV diagnosis.

A gay beautician is determined to clear his name after learning he's included in a drug watchlist.

MOTH IN TWILIGHT (Gamu-gamo sa Takipsilim) is a short film about a lonely ninety year old lady buys a coffin to her aged house and waits for her...

In a quaint provincial town, an elderly man awaits his inevitable fate.

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...

Blondie (Vivian Velez) is personified as three things: a hardworking businesswoman, a wife who’s been cheated on, and a mother of three. She is...

Moises, a single Filipino dad, comes home to celebrate his son's fourth birthday and learns that the Israeli government is going to deport the...

The story of its namesake - the forcible transfer of 76000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese Army in 1942.

Estela, an idealistic, call center slacker is mentored by Trevor, a pragmatic, senior agent. Their interaction develops into an unconventional...

An erotic, psychological drama-thriller set on the gritty streets of Raon, Quiapo, Manila - a third world commercial avenue where everything from...

"#Y" chronicles the adventures of the members of a generation made universal by social media, internet, sex, drugs and alcohol.

Jess is a young woman running from her past and moves into the house of a warmhearted landlady. She finds a diary in her room that belonged to an old...

Even after their break-up, a couple can't get enough of each other.

Despite their differences, an aspiring architect falls for her deaf neighbor, who teaches her basic sign language.

A story focusing on a elite law school fraternity, it follows a week in the lives of a neophyte, a master, and a lawyer alumnus, and crosses the...

While the marriage of two professors is on the verge of falling apart, the woman is dragged into a scandal involving a young student. On the other...

A Marikina shoemaker's daughter coming to terms with her grief in the wake of her father's suicide.

Impoverished, childless and living in a garbage dump, Miguel and Lina become instant celebrities when Lina miraculously becomes pregnant. But Lina...

Intoy has had the hots for Doray since they were kids in Kalye Marino, Cavite City, formerly the American Naval Base in Sangley Point. Both...

A starstruck girl sneaks into an actor’s house and discovers a horrifying truth about her idol.

An introverted teenage boy lies to his parents that he'd sleep over at his friends'. However, he made an appointment with a random guy found on a...

The true story of Andres Bonifacio, a man who rose as a leader in the fight against the Spanish oppressors, and would gain the enmity of even those...

Parallel stories of broken relationships between parents and their children striving for the American Dream all revolving around one explosive night...