University of the Philippines Film Institute Popular Movie

This film is composed of black and white images from the somber depths of Manila’s Sta. Mesa district, which are juxtaposed in the railroad...

Genre: Documentary

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A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sheenly Gener

A subdued worker serves a swollen man bound in an endless cycle of simultaneous consumption and defecation. A series of unprecedented events follow...

Genre: Animation

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A pensive man wearing an empty ID jacket and a broken watch drifts through public spaces on the way home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ray Dom

Solitary men in a roomy but empty cinema, omnipresent smartphones, and pop-up sexual intimations coalesce in a raunchy yet incisive portrait of...

Genre: Documentary

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In this collaborative film, documentary filmmakers and photographers from around the world reflect on the mass movements and protests during the...

Genre: Documentary

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A young woman revisiting memories of a lost love days before Martial Law is proclaimed -- an old, jaded mechanic -- a young man on his way to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marian Santos

A short animated film about Martial Law in the Philippines.

Genre: Animation

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Kino Kalye was birthed from a desire to show how this sense of alienation, the speed of commerce, and the consequences of the increasingly digital...

Genre: Documentary

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A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Lomahan

A university student learns that it is not so easy to borrow a library book. Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sari Estrada's segment in the anthology...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruby Ruiz