Cooking is a wonderful occasion to think, reminisce and talk. And if you have never learned to cook, if you’ve spent your life seeing the place at the stove as a feminist step backwards, then you can only have braised pork ribs while reflecting on your distant first home, your mother. How fortunate then that one can also reminisce in animated form and do it so impressively that the fragrant images make our mouth water.
Following the events of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1,” Baby Groot is finally ready to try taking his first steps out of his pot—only to learn you have to walk before you can run.
IN HER SHOES delves into professional spaces that are painfully structured by patriarchal power. By depicting female experiences in public realms, the film forces the viewer into the position of the protagonist. While this story ends at some point, many others do not.
It's a particularly boring night for a Waitress working her dinner shift. When a couple of customers argue over who gets to be polite and pay the bill, a filmy dance-fight ensues!
The Happy Place is a service that rents out rooms connected to a virtual realm that can be customized to any which way the user desires. A young girl frequently visits The Happy Place in order to live out her fantasy – a vast, beautiful world where she has friends who love and cherish her.
A young couple are visited in their home by strangers. By using the hospitality provided to them, the unexpected guests provoke the couple into rash acts, wrecking the established order and harmony within the family.
The tooth-mouse moves quietly in the darkness of people’s homes. The nature of his works compels him to hide from humans. But all this secrecy unleashes in him an existential thought: “how can something exist if no one ever sees it?”
A retired frog samurai wants nothing more than to be left alone and spend his remaining years in peace on the golf course. But when he unwillingly becomes the protector of a baby turtle he must draw his club for one more round. An animated amphibious adventure for golfers of all ages.
Aponibonilayen is a lovely maiden who went into an unplanned trip to the heavens and met the man of her life, Ini-init. An enchanted adventure mixed with culture and traditions of the Tinguian Tribe.
A boy made of paper named Carta has been traveling alone in a cardboard box he calls home. Gusts of wind constantly sweep it from place to place but the repetition of a solo routine bores him. One day, the box is separated from Carta in the middle of a cramped city. He then meets a strange, ragtag group of friends who offer to help him get back to his home. As they venture up an alley to reach Carta’s box, they explore acts of friendship that fascinate Carta who never having experienced life among others begins to enjoy their company.
Life in the Philippines can be a test in resiliency. Earthquakes, typhoons, volcanic eruptions strike with cyclical regularity. In the time of pandemic, threat to survival has been no more pronounced for the nurses, the frontliners trapped in dire circumstances and suspended dreams.