
Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns
Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.
Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.
When plain orphan Elsa begins having visions of the Virgin Mary, the rest of the residents of her isolated village find themselves questioning their...
This drama offers a rare chance to compare the styles of two major Filipino filmmakers. The first episode is about a chance encounter between a...
The hidden nightlife of ordinary people living in Manila unveils. Lovers and families conflict with each other as they live on the streets, which are...
Horticulturist Teresita and Rex, a skydiving enthusiast and passenger jeep manufacturer, have been together for five years. Rex then meets the...
A group of high school students navigate their lives and loves in this ensemble film from Ishmael Bernal.
"This is not a film by Khavn". Bomba Bernal is the hardcore pornographic bomb handjobbed in the hidden love-hotels of Philippine cinematographic...
A determined single parent, she manages to raise a child while remaining successful in her career as an advertising executive. Everything in her life...
A 2012 documentary about the making and the legacy of the 1982 drama masterpiece directed by Ishmael Bernal that ended up being one of the greatest...
Ferry owner Benjamin has a regular passenger, Chedeng, who is studying to become a midwife. Chedeng has a friend and neighbour, Maria, and without...
A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants.
A girl is torn between two lovers: the one she loves, and the one she cannot resist.
Tisoy is a bohemian balikbayan searching for his father. He gets help from his friends as they scour the immaculately clean Metro Manila as well as...
In a time in the Philippines when the concept of divorce does not exist, a young woman has an affair with a married man. Eventually, they move in...
A woman recently separated from her politician husband has an affair with a male friend.
A 1974 film from Ishmael Bernal about a man with seven wives.
Trapped in a world of hectic schedules, pressure, and little time for each other, married couple Ellen and Rene decide to have a temporary separation.
Opposites attract when Trixie, a spoiled rich brat, asks Alex, a hardworking taxi driver, to be her boyfriend to appease her grandfather.
An anthology of three violent stories: 'Baso' talks about the adventure of three friends who performed Spirit of the Glass and discovered the tale of...
A documentary on the life and work of National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.
=The movie portrays seven wayward men who suffer within the walls of the national penitentiary. They serve their sentences as if they are living...