Chanel Latorre
2021Bendor
Ralston Jover
Vivian Velez, Evelyn Vargas
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 a 50-something woman with poor eyesight who works as an upfront candle vendor outside Quiapo church and sells Cytotec, an abortion pill, on the side.
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Lauriana
Mel Chionglo
Bangs Garcia, Adrian Cabido
Orphan Carding befriends Army Captain Samuel Corazon, who’s stationed in his town to root out the remaining Huk guerrillas. At the dance hall, Corazon woos dancer Lauriana, and they soon move in together. The two become sort of surrogate parents for the orphan Carding, with Corazon teaching him the ways of men. But the soldier has a dark side, and Carding becomes witness to the violence occurring in their home, and a heinous act committed by the soldier on his common-law wife.
Lauriana
Mauban: Ang Resiko
Lemuel Lorca
Sid Lucero, Alessandra de Rossi
Widow Susan moonlights as a resort masseuse, her second son Junior is into lapu-lapu fish-raising, while her daughter Lota and husband Dudut are into wine-making. A daily fare, 'resiko' treat, has become a threat to the family's fight for survival.
Mauban: Ang Resiko
The Maid In London
Danni H. Ugali
Andi Eigenmann, Matt Evans
Inspired by true events, Margo who is a young mother and her best friend Faye are forced to cling to the edge of a knife so they could travel to the United Kingdom. They plan to work there even without a work permit and with only six months visa, time is running out and they may face the risk of deportation.
The Maid In London
Of Sinners and Saints
Ruben Maria Soriquez
Ruben Maria Soriquez, Chanel Latorre
Leonardo Rossellini is an Italian priest from Rome, assigned to a parish in Payatas, a poor area of Metromanila, Philippines. Leonardo's mission is to counsel battered women and teach poor children. But soon his peace of mind is distraught by the encounter of a woman he used to love when he was still a seminarian. This young woman, Merlinda, is now married to a violent man. She also has a 6 years old child who is missing. Leonardo decides to help her find her son.
Of Sinners and Saints
Lihis
Joel Lamangan
Lovi Poe, Joem Bascon
The film splits itself between two timelines. In 2006, Ada is basing her thesis on a massacre that occurred twenty years prior in a village called Acacia. Her mother Cecilia was part of a fact-finding mission into a massacre, and Ada’s inquiries bring up her history as a member of the NPA. The other timeline traces the relationship of Ka Felix and Ka Jimmy, two rebels who fall in love, despite the movement’s laws against such a pairing.
Lihis
The Guerilla is a Poet
Kiri Dalena, Sari Dalena
Jose Maria Sison, Karl Medina
The tale of an activist’s journey during the turbulent years of Martial Law, until his capture in the mountains and the dark, nine years of imprisonment that followed, leading to his birth as a poet.
The Guerilla is a Poet
Poon
Roni S. Benaid
Glydel Mercado, Shy Carlos
In a barrio fiesta, Claudia buys a statue of San Vargas, the patron saint of true faith, as an addition to her collection of religious images. A few days after, she discovers bloody tears from the statue's eyes, and believes it to be a miracle. What follows is a series of deaths in their parish and a change in Claudia that leads her to darkness.
The Image
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Benedict Mique
Eddie Garcia, Tony Labrusca
Carlo, an unapologetically millennial college jock, thinks that Martial Law wasn’t all that bad. No one in his family had anything bad to say about it, all he’s ever read are online posts on human rights violations. Confronted by a frustrated History professor, Carlo sets out to prove he is right and looks for someone who lived through that period to tell the tale.
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