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KUWENTOOHAN

Filmmakers 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

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

A quiet teen inherits a dark and ancestral force that helps her to take on her bully.

Between the Lines

Directed by Jill Janairo

An artsy, vintage homage to classic 90s Filipino teleserye — shot with an all-Filipinx crew.

In the Morning Sun

Directed by Serville Poblete

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

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

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

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.

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