Philippines

The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold’s personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.Read More »

Synopsis: A female movie fan idolizes a movie bit-player who becomes her obsession. Her unrequited love for him leads to a nightmarish end.Read More »

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When a Filipino teenager is shot to death in New Jersey, a probe takes place and reveals the struggles of the Filipino community in the USA and the horrifying effects of methamphetamine on its youth.Read More »

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Kalel, 15 follows the plight of a boy who has to make choices no child should ever make.

“Kalel, 15” is a social drama that addresses several issues at the same time: the stigma surrounding HIV, the carelessness with which the youth in the Philippines approaches sex, the heavy-weight consequences of growing up with a troubled parent and the Christian double moral.Read More »

Isla (Maria Isabel Lopez), is an island maiden who has all the men, including her father, lusting after her. Her dream was to leave her primitive island village and find another life in the big city.Read More »

PLOT: In 2013 typhoon Haiyan (also called Jolanda) hit Tacloban Island, causing the death of 7 thousand people. Few months later, Diaz visited the Island to film children lives.Read More »

SHE’S A WOMAN WHO DOES NOT REST.Read More »

From Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino website:
Daniel Aguila, a Filipino born in 1892, confronts and recoils from the weakness he sees among Filipinos at critical periods in our history. As a boy, he sees his revolucionario father betrayed by the man who eventually becomes his stepfather. As a young officer in Mindanao, he protects his stepfather who has come to grab lands from the Muslims, who retaliate by killing his mother and step-brother. He also has a son by a Muslim lass, whom he is forbidden to marry. As a PC officer, he gets involved in a legal tussle between an anti-American mass religious sect and the pro-American town-elite. Read More »

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Follows Lynn as she leaves her family behind and travels through the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer.Read More »