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- A collection of interwoven stories about life and violence in the Philippines, following a college professor, a university chancellor, a social worker, a police chief, two students, two mothers, and a lawyer.
- College senior Intoy "Edgar Allan Guzman" is unwittingly fallen into a friend-with-benefits situation with his mysterious classmate Jenny "Mercedes Cabral". Jenny has a reputation for being promiscuous,
- A poor aspiring rapper befriends an older poet after vandalizing his bookstore.
- Jocelyn, Rainier, and Bingbong are film-school graduates dead-set on making an Oscar-worthy film. They set out to do a quick pre-production as a courtesy call to their lead actress (Eugene Domingo), and a thorough inspection of their film's major location, the Payatas dumpsite. They believe they have a winning script and the energy and drive to make their dreams come true, no matter what the cost.
- A fading social media influencer and a struggling musician exploit each other in a not-so- fake relationship.
- A loving but impoverished grandmother of an autistic child tragicomically loses everything and turns into someone society reckons her to be.
- A deaf couple learns that it is not their inability to speak or hear that tears them apart.
- Gruff and cynical Rene is no stranger to loneliness, living an emotionally detached life with his dog, Bkawaw. Yet a connection with a middle-aged taxi driver begins to soften his outlook on life.
- Amidst the chaos of Martial Law in this Third World country in the 1980s, six teenagers in the top high school for the sciences discover themselves as they go through the joys and pains of adolescence. They were the top two hundred students from all over the Philippines who passed the examination for the Philippine Science High School, which was created for the purpose of giving an education highly enriched in the Sciences to exceptionally gifted Filipino children. Selected from the best and brightest from all over the country, they endure college-level courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics from their sophomore year onwards. Those who can make it are hailed as the future science and technology leaders of the New Republic, those who don't are deemed unfortunate victims of natural selection. They all learn however that they are neither isolated from the real world, nor are they exempted from living real lives. They find the world outside, erupting into the People Power revolution in 1986 against the Marcos dictatorship, being replicated within the school as they struggle to graduate, contend with teachers, classmates, family, school officials, and a new classification to segregate students meeting the high standards of excellence from those who do not.
- A 14-year-old farm boy's life is suddenly upended when a video of him brutally attacking a classmate goes viral.
- "Mga Dayo" portrays the personal struggles of three Filipina immigrants - a journalist, a photographer and a hotel housekeeper. Ella (Olga Natividad) is a housekeeping supervisor at a hotel who's finding it difficult to juggle her responsibilities at work and at home. Miriam (Janela Buhain) is a journalist nursing the pain of a broken relationship. And photographer Alex (Sue Prado) has just lost her job, and is days away from being sent back to the Philippines. As the island of Guam celebrates the classic American holiday of Thanksgiving, the lives of these three Pinay resident aliens intersect.
- In sickness and in health, should marriage really be an unconditional partnership that should never be broken? Christina, in her 30's, is married to Hector, a husband who's paralyzed and therefore physically incompetent to consummate their marriage. She wants to liberate herself from a sexless union. Her needs as a woman are unfulfilled. But her love for Hector, and her commitment to him coupled with the dictates of her faith and marital vows, and her sympathy and care for her husband keeps her in "cage of marriage," where she suffers in melancholic solitude, yet contemplates on freedom and rediscovering her true worth.
- After a particularly strong squall, a sleepy fishing village on a tiny island in Southern Tagalog wakes up to an astonishing sight - their sea has turned red. Floating on their waters are thousands of apples. No one knows where they came from. Some suspect this is a bad omen from the baconaua - a creature of myth. Few believe it to be a miracle from heaven, while others fear a more sinister source.
- Boses (Voices) is the story of a musician named Ariel who offers violin lessons to a child of the slums. Through the violin, the abused child Onyok is able to get back his voice from a mute, desensitized existence. A violin teacher and his student, a mute 7-year old abused child in a shelter, develop a friendship stemming from their love of music. Ariel discovers the immense talent of Onyok hiding behind a veneer of silence and pain caused by an unhappy and cruel father. In the developing relationship of teacher and student, both characters reveal more of themselves that otherwise may have remained unspoken. They discover each other's strengths and failures through the violin lessons.
- A tikbalang (horse demon) who transforms into a teenage boy tries to disprove the rumor that horse demons are killing civilians in the mountain.
- Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking as a child. Now 20 years old, he's returning to Manila from his studies abroad, his first visit home in three years. He finds his family trying to keep it together, his mother still hurting from a tragic loss in the past. In the backdrop of the vibrant local music scene, his childhood best friend reaches out to him, and he finds a chance at his first real romantic relationship. Amidst the holidays, Gibson reconsiders and redefines his relationships with his family, his friends, and himself.
- It follows the stories of two families as they prepare funeral arrangements for their loved ones who both died in a brutal traffic collision.
- A lonesome alcoholic woman attempts to fulfill a local legend about the Family That Doesn't Weep with the help of her nanny and her nanny's uncle in the hopes of reuniting her own estranged family.
- A man unearths a coffin containing the remains of his child which stirs up the enitre township as the body has hardly decomposed at all. Could it be that she is miraculous, a saint in the making?
- Danny and Jonas are two petty crooks who dream of moving into the big scene. When their carefully-planned kidnapping goes askew, Danny and Jonas find themselves in a tangle neither of them can handle.
- After surviving the Death March, Martial Law, and the loss of his legs, Justino became an atheist. But when his wife dies, a part of him yearns to believe in life beyond death, just for a chance to be with her again. Searching for parts of her he can still hold on to, he devours her diaries for information into their past--opening a Pandora's Box of secrets.
- May is the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Christ. In Infanta, Quezon, locals turn each of the 31 days of May into a charming honor not only to celebrate good harvest in their agricultural setting, but also to pay tribute to the virginal virtues of the Mayohan.
- A 14-year old Batad Boy, a high school dropout, is forced to sell produce in the Banawe market to augment the family income while his father pursues the philantrophic mission of repairing the rice terraces of adjoining Ifugao villages. Exposed to Western modernization in Banawe, the boy obsesses with owning a pair of rubber shoes that he does not really need. In pursuit of his dream sneakers, he takes on all odd jobs imaginable and ultimately becomes a tour guide. During one of his tours, he barters his guide fee for a pair of shoes which are, however, too big for him. Upon possessing the long-desired rubber shoes, he attempts to leave his Ifugao roots and chase big city dreams.
- A deceased woman's diaries reveal secrets that threaten her best friend's relationships when she can't resist reading them, despite warnings.