Free Indie Films, Short Films & Videos You Can Watch Online | Free Access During Quarantine
Here is the list of short films, indie films, art films and videos that you can watch during month-long community quarantine. Keep yourself entertained with these list of films for free! Watch these amazing short films from the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries. Binge-watch these works at home.
THAILAND
Nontawat Numbenchapol
GAZE AND HEAR
This video art experiment and survey on human's visual and sound perception which have influence on way of life, national integration, and people's belief in fact. The video change the way of human's usual perception by using a Thai ancient tale read by a calm voice, along with the annoying visual and sound.
password: eye
Patipol Teekayuwat
BANGKOK DYSTOPIA
A high school boy and a young prostitute meet by chance on the night of the 2014 military coup d’état in Thailand when a curfew forces them to get off the bus. The two are initially distrustful of each other but start to bond when they realise the similarities in their circumstances. However, reality eventually catches up with them, leading to a sad and surreal end.
https://vimeo.com/227120008
password: BDP2017
MALAYSIA
Bradley Liew
ANG PAGLALARAWAN NG KULAY PULA SA ISANG BULAG (Describe The Color Red To A Blind Man)
A long time ago, young mermaid (or an actress playing the role of a mermaid) ran away from the sea to find out what it was like living among humans. The mermaid grew up experiencing all that she wanted but at the cost of her being tainted by human nature. On her last day of whatever magic she has left would allow her to return to her people, she contemplates on returning to a land of perfection.
password: red
See Wee Aw
KAMPUNG TAPIR
A Sunday afternoon, migrant worker Anne and her husband leave their five years old daughter from Kampung Tapir (Tapir Village), Malaysia.
On the way to Singapore, the bus their ride hit a wild Malayan tapir which wanted to cross the road, but no one is eager to save it.
In the struggling of choosing a country to settle down, Anne founds that she is like this endangered species, still drifting places to find their own better life.
password: kampungtapir
PHILIPPINES
Antoinette Jadaone
PLANO (Plan)
Plano is a short film about a man who didn't pick on someone his own size, and a girl who seemed too little to be vengeful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad37p1t8eF4
Giancarlo Abrahan
MAY DINADALA (Weight)
The wife of a middle-aged stone miner bears child while he is in a relationship with an enchanted black figure. A fettered commitment to an unborn child he already loves and a wife he despises torments the man. The enchanted lover offers him uncertain seduction. And he must choose, just as every dark creature must only pick between painful fates.
password: weight
Carl Chavez
SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE
JOSHUA, a timid teenager, comes home one night after being beaten up by the school's bully. Feeling the urge to avenge himself, he decides to take matters into his own hands. But things don't go as planned. Now, he is left with no choice but to seek help from his policeman father.
password: imsorry2017
John Torres
STUDY ON LUKAS IN LUKAS THE STRANGE
Village miracles caught on tape: images of a river that must be crossed to erase heartaches, imagined with a boy who has never experienced sorrow.
password: study
SILENT FILM
Black-and-white sequence of contemporary urban life, jittery images recorded by a 1940s motion-picture camera, and a sleepy narration of words, written by Filipino poet and singer Lourd De Veyra.
MUSE
A film inspired by birds, planes, and flight. Based on a poem by Filipino writer Allan Pastrana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyxsKXXgfvc
AFTER NONOY ESTARTE
Inspired by an artist's drawings in the South, I saw paintings that depicted the indigenous people's view of the origins of the world. The film is the tale of our nation and basic things: water, plants, body, and their own interaction through time.
password: estarte
Xeph Suarez
ASTRI AND TAMBULAH
Astri is a 16 year old transwoman in a relationship with 17 year old Tambulah. Although it’s an unusual sight at their community, nobody bothers them.
Subsisting on the coins people throw at them when they perform their traditional dance at the sea, everything is perfect except that Sama Badjao traditions and a pact made long ago require Astri to marry a woman she hardly knows.
password: astri&tambulah
IYO SI MALIK
Toto, 8, and Jr, 10, are victims of a recent armed conflict in their city. While playing among the war ruins, they discuss and re-enact their individual war experiences. This story is set in Zamboanga City after the standoff in 2013 between the forces of the Republic of the Philippines and a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front led by Habier Malik.
Paulie Patindol
HILOM
In a fishing village that’s been ravaged by a strong typhoon, the bond of twin brothers is disrupted by another young boy. h i l o m follows the journey of the brothers, Andres and Gael, as they find healing against the harsh landscape of an island that’s also trying to recover.
https://drive.google.com/Hilom
Pam Miras
TO REMAIN IS TO HAVE BEEN LEFT
A woman about to jump off a building gets caught in an unending time loop
Gino Santos
LABING DALAWA (Twelve)
Twelve is a semi documentary-narrative focusing on multiple characters who experience different situations around the the city in the span of 12 minutes.
EVERY OTHER TIME
College and partying are almost synonymous to one another, so are making mistakes. The freedom we have during college can sometimes make us forget the tiniest of our responsibilities. After a night of hard partying, this guy realizes he left something behind.
ANG TANGKE (The Water Tank)
In a country where an estimated 17million Filipinos still do not have sustained access to potable water, a little town expresses their gratitude for the blessings their water tank has given them.
https://www.youtube.com/TheWaterTank
Dodo Dayao
IF YOU LEAVE
Two amateur ghost hunters are hired to surveil an alleged haunted house. Nothing much happens. But just because you can't see the patterns of strangeness, it doesn't mean they aren't there.
password: F A I T H
Christian Villanueva
ANG MGA TURO NG GABI (Lessons of the Night)
Over the course of one night, Juanita a teacher battling postpartum depression teams up with her delinquent student to retrieve something important for her. The film depicts the responsibility of a mother to her child, and how finding solace can affect humans.
https://drive.google.com/AngMgaTuroNgGabi
Che Tagyamon
LOLA LOLENG
A young woman returns to her hometown to meet her Grandmother Loleng who suffers from dementia. Together, they will unearth the old lady’s innermost secrets and wartime experiences.
password: hello
Hannah Espia Farbova
RUWEDA
Three people cross paths at a local town carnival, each with something to gain and to lose. One of them acquires it, the other two pay the price.
https://www.viddsee.com/video/ruweda
Arden Rod Condez
HASTA NA LANG SA DASON, (Until Next Time,)
A MOTHER retires as a maid due to an illness. Continuing the legacy of their kin, the mother's DAUGHTER arrives from the province to assume her post.
Password: maidinthephilippines
Alvin Yapan
ROLYO
In between harvests, to supplement their income, Judith is sent by her father to catch birds which they would peddle come Sunday outside the church. On their trip to the city, Judith requests that they watch a movie after selling off all the birds. What Judith gets in return is a torotot (trumpet) made out of rolled-up film negatives. The story is set in Bikol where it is a practice among rural folks to surround the perimeter of their farmlands with film negatives to ward off birds eating the newly sown palay seeds.
Chad Vidanes
PAANO NANGYARI ANG HINDI NANGYARI
A family of activists face struggles to make change. A family gets their hand on a copy of the scandal of the president and an american actress and tries to use this as an instrument for change.
password: chadthesis
Kyle Nieva
CINEMATIQUE
Cinématique interweaves various art forms such as dance, painting, photography, and music to create a unique sensorial experience.
Martika Escobar
PUSONG BATO (Stone Heart)
Pusong Bato is a film-within-a film about Cinta Dela Cruz, a faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glory days as a movie star in the 1970s.
Jenn Romano
AN KAPINUNAN KAN MGA ALON SA ADLAW (Where The Lake Ripples Begin)
After working abroad, El goes back to Buhi, Camarines Sur—a small town surrounded by various tales and legends. With the place is her lover (Ira), whom she regretfully left. When she tries to get her back, their fate seems to be one with the tales and legends of Buhi, one bound to tragedy.
https://drive.google.com/WheresTheLake
Petersen Vargas
LISYUN QNG GEOGRAFIA (Geography Lessons)
Before leaving his hometown Pampanga for good, Tib chances upon an old map that triggers him to retrace the places that are special to him and his high school best friend Tric.
password: geographylessons2014
Kaj Palanca and Jared Joven
CONTESTANT #4
A young boy chances upon an old man watching a dated clip of himself as a cross-dressing boy. What he ultimately discovers aids both him and the old man towards a richer understanding of how the weight of life and identity should be carried.
password: contestant2016
Iar Arondaing
ANAGOLAY “GODDESS OF THE LOST”
This short film wields on the folkloric Tagalog deity of lost things Anagolay to try to present a simplified analysis of a more complex system that includes questions of who should have the power, understanding who holds power in the relationship of the higher authorities and the people and the influence of people around it. It is an iconoclastic stance on the personality cult and the seduction of power.
GAPAS
Gapas opens with a naked old man emerging from rice grains. The man runs across the drought-suffering field. Then he is shown rope-tied to a giant rice god idol, until finally he finds a rusty sickle. The short experimental film shows the peasant situation--of repression, authority, struggle and defiance.
password: gapas
Glenn Barit
ALIENS ATA (Maybe Aliens)
Two brothers deal with the sudden loss of a father and an eventual separation with their overseas-filipino-worker mother. Some things are hard to grasp that's why they turn to out-of-this-world things for an explanation. This is a film shot entirely with a drone.
https://www.viddsee.com/video/maybe-aliens
CAMBODIA
Polen Ly
IVA (2012) 13 mins
A girl looks for her beloved dog, Iva, who misses from home.
Link: https://drive.google.com/Iva
Polen Ly
DUETTO (2013) 7 mins
A violinist got in a road accident, which made her lose an arm. Her despair moment will leads her to a high point of frustration of not being able to play her music anymore, until life shows her another side of her new tough life.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/Duetto
Polen Ly
COLORFUL KNOTS (2013) 7 mins
A little girl from a rich family encounters two street kids, who sell her jasmines. Their path of friendship develops and brings a new meaning of life and death.
Link: https://vimeo.com/ColorfulKnots
Password: 6978
INDONESIA
Adi Marsono
FATIMAH (2018) 12:22 | Drama
One year after the death of her husband, Fatimah visits his grave with her daughter and is faced with the realisation that her late husband had another wife and child. Fatimah and Nisa must go on with their lives despite the revelation.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Fatimah
Password: fatimah
SINGAPORE
Nelson Yeo
FIVE TREES (2017)
A chance encounter led a pair of old
ex-lovers to unite again under the Five Trees.
Link: https://vimeo.com/5Trees
Password: 5trees
PHILIPPINES
Lav Diaz
ANG ARAW BAGO ANG WAKAS (2015) 16:15 |
In the year 2050, the Philippines braces for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets are being murdered.
Link: https://vimeo.com/175905316
Password: romeoandjuliet
Erik Matti
VESUVIUS (2012) 15:51 | Drama/Horror
An image seemingly that of the Virgin Mary appears upon a man. The image begins to speak to the man in whispers. Since then, the man has not been the same.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Vesuvius
Password: vesuvius01
Shireen Seno
SHOTGUN TUDING (2014) 16 mins | Western,Comedy
Tuding arrives at a distant town to track down the man who got her youngest sister pregnant, and she isn't going home without him.
Set in late-1940s Philippines, a tribute to pancit westerns - pancit being the Philippine equivalent of spaghetti.
A prequel to Big Boy (2012) by Shireen Seno.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Shotgun
Password: kisskissbangbang
Jaja Arumpac
CONCHITA (2018) 32 mins | Documentary
Cited in Ramon Magsaysay Awards as a "fearless and indefatigable Ombudsman of the Philippines whose integrity and dignity restored the people's faith in the rule of law," former Ombudsman and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Conchita Carpio Morales was one of the few dissenting voices in the government that condemned the Philippine Drug War. CONCHITA' peels off the many layers of the famed woman of steel to reveal the innermost humanity of a public servant staying true to her mandate.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/Conchita
Jerold Tarog
FACULTY (2010) 7 mins
Two teachers from a private college clash on their opposing views on education.
Link: https://youtu.be/Faculty
Law Fajardo
12 (2001) 13 mins | Experimental
*contains violence & disturbing images
"Can one man bear the sins of the world?"
Link: https://vimeo.com/12
Password: clickmolang
Gym Lumbera & Raya Martin
Estimated Time of Arrival (2012) 2 mins | Experimental
A nursery rhyme hovers over shadowy fragments of time, of arrivals and departures and the illusion of passage they evoke
Link: https://l.facebook.com/ETA
Trinka Lat
April Fools (2009) 11 mins
Birthdays shouldn't be too hard to celebrate unless you're missing the celebrant.
Link: https://vimeo.com/AprilFools
Password: 01042009
Sheron Dayoc
As He Sleeps (2012) 14 mins
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.
Link: https://vimeo.com/AsHeSleeps
JP Habac
Oktopus (2015) 9 mins | Comedy
On the day of their friend’s funeral, three old ladies argue who’s going to die next.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Oktopus
JP Habac
Maria (2016) 10 mins | Comedy
When the whole family confronts their 14-year-old daughter of a suspected pregnancy, a 50-year-old woman gives birth to her 22nd child.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Maria
Isabelle Matutina
Imik (2012) 40 mins
English title: Vow of Silence
“Imik” is the story of Claire – wife to a loving husband, mother to two lovely kids, and she has never had an orgasm.
Embarrassment, guilt, and a fear of her own desires have made her sexual relationship with her husband a constant struggle.
Until one day, Claire suddenly finds herself pregnant again.Claire’s fear of going back to the life she had before leads her to desperately find a moment of freedom from the role she cannot escape.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Imik
Password: charlotteperkinsgilman
Nang Gabing Maging Singlaki ng Puso ang Bato ni Darna (2012) 6 mins | Experimental
English Title: Darna: A Stone is a Heart you cannot Swallow
After waking up to discover that her magical stone has grown as big as her heart, Darna decides.
Link: https://vimeo.com/SinglakiNgPuso
Password: darna2012
Kenneth Lim Dagatan
Sanctissima (2016) 15 mins
MARISA lives alone in the dark with an even darker secret. Her only contact to the outside world were her patients, who come and go, oblivious of whether the fetuses that Marisa extracts from them survive or not. A complication besetting one of her patients threatens Marisa’s reclusive world. She fights back to protect it.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Sanctissima
Sleepy Eyes (2016) 4 mins
A young girl tries to sleep.
Link: https://vimeo.com/SleepyEyes
Chris Costello & Mihk Vergara
Ang Maskot (2013) 19 mins
Based on the independent comic by Macoy,the film tells of a disgruntled fast food worker who finds himself stuck inside his mascot costume for a day.
Link: https://youtu.be/AngMaskot
Zurich Chan
Boca (2010) 15 mins
Charlemagne Alejandro, has an oral fixation. He compensates the lack of motherly love with chain smoking. All grown up, Charlemagne now works in a retail office. Out of all the monotony of the life he leads, things happen around him and ultimately finds something better to do with his lips than smoking.
As Charlemagne finds what his looking for, so does his boss in the office; Benny, his smoking buddy; and Marie, Charlemagne’s stalker.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/Boca
Gio Lingao
Flower Codec Lotus (2018) 4 mins | Experimental
A Filipino tourist finds refuge in a blooming lotus flower in Vienna.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Lotus
Password: i993filipinas2018
Gio Lingao
Degrees of Separation (2016) 3 mins | Experimental
A man decides to take a bath. As the silence blends in to the sound of rushing water, he remembers some of the days of his life.
Link: https://vimeo.com/DegreesOfSeparation
Password: philippines2016
Aedrian Araojo
Hondo (2016) 19 mins
Mara is scared of water. She has a rare condition that keeps her from touching any forms of liquid.
As a single mother her only pearl is her frisky son Elim, who was later on diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. The boy’s only request is to learn how to swim.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Hondo
Password: hombrella
Adrian Araojo
When Curiosity Kills the Cat (2013) 10 mins
A story of a boy obsessed with masturbation.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Curiosity
Password: hombrella
Ryanne Murcia
Apasol (2014) 19 mins
An afternoon of love and farewell as Mark and El, a gay couple, spend their last afternoon together wishing on a tree, waiting to fade with the sun.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Apasol
Password: apasol093091
Ryanne Murcia
In the Middle of an End (2016) 23 mins
After seven months of taking care of pregnant Ayesha, Khalil and Danny are confronted of her decision to keep the child. The film explores the complexity of human relations and the search for acceptance and belongingness in a conservative Muslim society.
Link: https://vimeo.com/MiddleOfAnEnd
Password: entremediodelfin0930
Rob Jara
Maliw (2013) 44 mins
English Title: Soliloguies
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 countryside encountering a host of militia men and their tortured captive stories of forgotten hopes, of wearied struggles, of memories lost. Can they still be ever found?
Link: https://www.youtube.com/Maliw
Rob Jara
Tila (2014) 21 mins
English Title: Monsoons
In a world where the rain never stops, illegal multivitamin supplements are all the rage and ‘bulalo’ is a most precious commodity, two people - a flood control worker and a call center agent who sells summer vacation packages abroad - meet and find a sense of intimate normalcy and unfamiliar ease in each other.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Tila
Password: blameitontherain
Jarell Serencio
Victor (2012) 15 mins
For ten long years, Victor, a native in San Pedro Cutud,San Fernando, Pampanga, religiously offers himself to be nailed on the cross every Holy Week. But this film will show you the glaring realities of faith and beliefs and how Filipinos and foreigners embrace the tradition of “Semana Santa” (Holy Week) as an attraction to this town.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Victor
Password: victor2012
Judd Figuerres
Brownout sa Neighborhood Namin that Day (2011) 39 mins
*contains nudity and sex
Amidst a city-wide brownout, Sunlight experiences the balmiest Christmas of her young life.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Brownout
Ilsa Malsi
Dadi (2010) 20 mins
A daughter wonders where her father is going.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Dadi
Inshallah Montero
Himlay (2017) 8 mins | Experimental Documentary
English title: Slumber
Himlay is an exploration of a former prostitute's nightmares and her escape to pursue her real dreams.
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/Himlay
Noel Escondo
Alaala (2017) 5 mins | Drama
English title: Memory
A man returns to his homeland and recounts the memories of his lover. *contains nudity
Link: https://vimeo.com/Alaala
Password: noelescondo
Noel Escondo
Nakaw (2016) 5 mins | Drama
English title: Stolen
A decision that leads to a series of unfortunate events.
*contains nudity and sex
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/Nakaw
Password: noelescondo
Amanna Avena
Matched (2018) 8 mins | RomCom
A shy, nerdy man is repeatedly matched in a carpool with a beautiful woman. The man struggles to communicate with her but everything changes when a kind, witty driver decides to help him.
Link: https://www.viddsee.com/video/Matched
Isabelle Quesada
Pektus (2015) 20 mins | Drama
Pektus tells the story of a day in the lives of two men in the city -both proud, indifferent, and bound by the confines of their milieu and their choices in life- and their incidental yet preordained meeting in a one-way alley that would change their lives thereafter.
Link: https://vimeo.com/Pektus
Password: SPIN2
Tim Rone Villanueva
Santa Nena! (2017) 21 mins | Dark Comedy, Satire
English title: Saint Nena!
Santa Nena, a patron saint statue in a parish church that springs to life every night, wishes to become human again.
Link: https://youtu.be/SantaNena
Tim Rone Villanueva
Paano Bihisan ang isang Ina? (2018) 13 mins | Psychological Drama, Thriller
English title: How to Dress A Mother-naked?
Klaudia, a “live show” performer in a whorehouse, is hired by 12-year old millionaire Javier to be his mother for a week. *contains nudity
Link: https://youtu.be/PaanoBihisan
Sam Manacsa
Kung Wala Nang Tulad Natin (2016) 16 mins | Drama
English title: If People Such as We Cease to Exist
The story of a grieving widow's attempt to find the missing piece of her husband's remains.
Link: https://vimeo.com/TuladNatin
Password: kungwalana2016
Jake Consing
Cut (2016) 10 mins
A student filmmaker tries to write a script for a short film, but his depression tortures him to the point he can't even think. *contains violence & disturbing images
Link: https://www.viddsee.com/video/Cut
Miguel Nacianceno
TRAINING (2008) 13 mins
A 2008 short film about two call center agents who meet on the job and find a connection.
Link: https://vimeo.com/398721063
Dylan Ray Talon
PRAYERS FOR THE PREY (2016) 6 mins
With danger lying ahead from the hands of a bloodlust tribe who hunts their preys for their teeth, skin and meat to use; a sole survivor of its own kind tries to save its offsprings to continue their species.
Link: https://filmfreeway.com/1311511
Dylan Ray Talon
YOU, ME AND THEIR MAGIC MIRROR (2018) 6 mins
A human's spaceship crashes on an unknown land and just when he thought he defeated his abductors, he realizes that there is a bigger villain.
Link:
https://filmfreeway.com/YouMeMagicMirror
King Palisoc
MAHAL KO SI DIREK (2014) 20 mins
A student filmmaker struggles to finish her most personal short film when her non-actor actor bares his emotions on cam.
Link: https://vimeo.com/MahalKoSiDirek
Quark Henares
MY DATE WITH JAO MAPA (2000) 19 mins
Alexa Lindo is matinee idol Jao Mapa’s biggest fan, and she goes through great lengths to get a date with him.
A sweet, lighthearted romantic comedy that proves that dreams do come true!
Link: https://vimeo.com/JaoMapa
Quark Henares
CHILDSTAR (2001) 8 mins
Former child celebrity Ria Avelino trudges through life in New York, going through auditions looking to regain even a smidge of her former glory.
Link: https://vimeo.com/71938624
Carlo Francisco Manatad
JUNILYN HAS (2015) 14 mins
A dancer in a nightclub, Junilyn has to learn new moves to attract more customers during the Pope's visit to the Philippines. But while she rehearses, she is also preparing her bold move to free herself.
Link: https://vimeo.com/JunilynHas
Password: jhscreenerpek2
Arnold Arre & Emil Flores
LAKAS NG LAHI (2014) 10 mins
Three Filipino warriors fought against the oppression of the Spanish regime in the late 19th century.
Link: https://youtu.be/LakasNgLahi
Jay Rosas & Mark Limbaga
Budots: The Craze (2019) 20 mins
"Budots" has swept the Filipino masses by storm. But the dance craze that has people move around in uncoordinated, freestyle dance to a weird mix of electronic sound and noises, originated in Davao City in Southern Philippines before it got viral in the Internet and social media. An internet bum and a small group of people in his community started it all.
Link: https://vimeo.com/355489000
Password: tiwtiw
Joel Ruiz
The End is Bigger than Love (2014) 27 mins
Two ex-lovers meet at the end of the world.
Link: https://vimeo.com/108667420/c9bc24baa6
Jeffrie Po
Ang Ikaduhang Pagbalik (2017) 25 mins
English title: The Second Coming
A man finds his fate in the path of a certain church when a pastor convinced him to join their gathering.
Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XuZ__DnpN98Qwjde2fAGROjraH8oP84E
Edmund Telmo
3021 (2018) 13 mins
Operation Holokaustus has killed all but one untouchable and he's left alone in a hardly habitable planet because of the post-truth wars. When he tried to teleport to other planets using the machine he created, he opened a communication to a fugitive scientist who happens to be the one who preserved him.
Link: https://vimeo.com/295149449
Password: holymountain
Samantha Lee
AGOS (2011) 22 mins
A glimpse into the life of surfer Mocca Eduzma as she goes about her daily life in a rural village in the Philippines. It goes beyond the stereotype of the "surfing lifestyle" while at the same time explores its fundamental values like perseverance, simplicity and passion.
Link: https://youtu.be/Fs3RFZ-dRps
Austin Tan
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MYLENE! 2023 KA NA. (2018) 9 mins
Philippines, 2023. Jocy, a security guard, tries to get home to celebrate the birthday of her daughter, She tells her friend, Huana, of a nightmare she had the night before. On their way home, both experience strange and mysterious things, similar to Jocy's nightmare.
Link: https://www.viddsee.com/video/happy-2023rd-birthday-mylene
Emman Mariano
BISTEK (2019) 20 mins
Bistek follows Marko, an 24 year old copywriter who is mourning the loss of his only family left, his mother, Grace. Marko, filled with regret, tries to save enough money in order to give his mother Grace a final resting place. Marko works at a small advertising company where he is a writer. There, he is forced to succumb to his Boss’ demands and requests and his artistic freedom is not respected. Fearful that he might lose his only source of income, Marko tries and tries to meet his Boss’ demands.
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/BISTEK
Jan Michael Jamisola
ODA SA MGA NANGANGARAP (2015) 22 mins.
A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he still has the gift to make people laugh.
Link: https://vimeo.com/144187134
Password: pelikuLAB
Mervine Aquino
BAGUIO ADDRESS NO. 10 (2018) 15 mins.
Baguio Address No. 10 reflects on the filmmaker’s family’s experiences of moving from house to house in Baguio City, Philippines.The filmmaker and his mother recount memories of their old homes and the family’s repetitive experiences of packing (and unpacking), moving, and accumulating things over the years. They try to imagine and describe a “dream house” and await the possibility of owning a house in the future.
Link: https://vimeo.com/287011738
Password: videohome
Mario Flores
PUTO (2018) 17 mins.
The volleyball player Ylon is distracted during a game as he is haunted by the events that transpired towards his family days before.
Link: https://drive.google.com/PUTO
Christine dela Paz
ANAMAMANA (2019) 8 mins
This film is about two women, a mother and a daughter, with two different personalities and how being stuck together at home further strains their relationship.
Link: https://vimeo.com/402082694
James Fajardo
ANG LALAKING MAY REGLA SA GITNA NG DAGAT (2018) 15 mins.
A fishing community faces an impending demolition because the landowner is planning to transform the place into a beach resort. One of the fisherfolks is Simon, a teenage boy, who had a menstruation in the middle of fishing. Simon aims to discover his identity through the help of his best friend Pancho to avoid bullying in his school. Simultaneously, his father, Nestor, an activist leader in their community, organizes and mobilizes the fisherfolks to continue to fight for their houses. Meanwhile, Simon’s mother, Marites, has contrasting opinion and she wants to accept the demolition fee after Mon’s brother died last year due to dynamite fishing.
Link: http://tiny.cc/TheBoyWhoBleeds
Shaira Molto
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOLO! (2019) 10 mins.
A young and loving boy mistakes his Lolo’s funeral for a birthday party.
Link: https://drive.google.com/HAPPYBIRTHDAYLOLO
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The Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival is a film festival in the Philippines held annually during the month August at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex and various cinemas. Its aim is the development and promotion of Filipino independent films.[1] The film festival is organized by the Cinemalaya Foundation, Inc. with the support of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Econolink Investments, Inc.
Each year, the Festival provides "seed investments" of ₱500,000 (US$10,000~) to ten independent filmmakers. It has since been increased to ₱1,000,000 (US$20,000~) since 2019. These ten "finalists" are culled from hundreds of submissions from all over the Philippines. Their films debut at the festival, together with in-competition short films, as well as various out-of-competition works.
The organizing committee, headed by veteran Filipino director and actress Laurice Guillen, oversees the production of the films and the festival. [2]
The latest edition 15th edition of the festival was held from August 2-11, 2019 in Metro Manila and from August 7-13, 2019 in selected regions.
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