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Ultimo
Adaptation of the poem Mi ultimo adiós (My Last Goodbye) by Jose Rizal (1896): ‘On the field of battle, ‘mid the frenzy of fight /…Published on: -
Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song
John Torres films fragments and diaries. He set off and looked at his own country, the land outside the city, like an alien. He posed…Published on: -
Vapor Trail (Clark)
An investigation into the ecological disaster caused by a US military base on the Philippines – and its victims, their world. A humble act of…Published on: -
Manila Skies
Based on a true story: a Filipino hijacks an aircraft and then jumps out with a home-made parachute. What drives someone to something so absurd?…Published on: -
Flooding in the Time of Drought
A full-length feature with many documentary elements follows eight immigrant couples in Singapore who play scenes from their lives, often shot in theiPublished on: -
Come to Me, Paradise
In this sci-fi documentary, a drone spirit is summoned to the heart of Hong Kong where Filipina migrant workers gather and make public space their…Published on: -
The Cleaners
Hidden behind thousands of monitors on the Philippines, there’s a shadow industry of digital cleaners who decide what the internet can show us aPublished on: -
Neomanila
Welcome to Manila’s slums, now shady hunting grounds thanks to Duterte’s bloody war on drugs. Homeless teen Toto is sucked into a vortex ofPublished on: -
Disintegration 93-96
Living in the USA illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza reflects on his family’s relocation from Manila to Los Angeles in this introspective essaPublished on: -
Kamera obskura
The film opens with three real-life Filipino film archivists, who call a press conference to announce that an old film has been discovered in a…Published on: