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shareFilmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.
We too can dig deeper this time around. We have other lives to explore and stories to tell, di ba?
In this program
Agapito
Directed by: Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Romero | 15 mins
It’s the last day of the month. Bowlers flock to the lanes of a bowling alley that has seen better days. Mira, the manager, decides to close early.
She’s awaiting the arrival of a special visitor.
Anino
Directed by: MG Evangelista | 15 mins
A quiet teen inherits a dark and ancestral force that helps her to take on her bully.
Between the Lines
Directed by: Jill Janairo | 3 mins
An artsy, vintage homage to classic 90s Filipino teleserye — shot with an all-Filipinx crew.
In the Morning Sun
Directed by: Serville Poblete | 22 mins
In a quiet Toronto apartment, an immigrant mother finds comfort in her Alexa—weather updates, love songs, and the time back home become a lifeline to the Philippines, reminding her of the family she left behind.
Out of Eden
Directed by: Siege Ledesma | 15 mins
In search of deliverance in a post-apocalyptic Philippines, a distraught mother takes her reluctant daughter on a secret pilgrimage to partake in their god-king’s divine ascension.
The Bird, the Girl and the Typhoon
Directed by: Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler | 11 mins
While following her morning routine, an elderly migrant Filipino nurse is liberated from a lifetime of service as she transforms into the weather, an endemic bird, the harvest, and her own internal force.
Veterano
Directed by: Patrick Epino | 10 mins
A Filipino World War II veteran with nothing left to lose dusts off his past and his pistol for one last mission in 1981 San Francisco.
