Movies: Cinemalaya Foundation

An assassin, a porn dubber and a transgender. Three souls. One explicit illusion. To find the ultimate joy in their empty lives. A safe haven, where passion and love mean humanity, ecstasy means enlightenment; and the soul is the ultimate arbiter of ...

A land-grabbing tycoon and a former sexy male actor are in a tight race for mayor in a small town. When violence erupts, Emmy, a teacher, runs into the wilderness with a ballot box, the last copy of the election result....

Kasal is a slice of life drama of a gay couple whose resolve to stay together is challenged as they attend a wedding. It also is an examination on how a gay couple navigates through the different institutions in Philippine society....

An awkward 6-footer teen is forced to learn and play volleyball half-heartedly when the Catholic school she transferred to did not have a basketball team. Everything changes when she meets their star player....

A young, unmarried couple must agree on certain terms on how to properly raise their son, who is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder....

A pessimistic uninspired middle-aged artist finds spark with a millennial photographer who leads her on a path of creative and sexual reawakening....

The true story of a young mother who uses story-telling to protect her child from the reality of growing up in prison and the difficult life she endured....

Ordinary People is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not even...

Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. Can they turn each other’s lives around before they’re swallowed by their circumsta...

When an alien comes back to take him, a mouthless young man's life twists and turns as his memories untangle....

A progressive rock band composed of privileged teenagers get arrested for drug possession, and are brought into the “Blue Room” where they must make the difficult choice between freedom or standing up for what they believe in....

Gruff retiree Rene rejects most human contact, but begins to soften once he comes to terms with his homosexuality....

A loving but impoverished grandmother of an autistic child tragicomically loses everything and turns into someone society reckons her to be....

While creating the subtitles of a film, a young Filipina translator and a middle-aged Japanese director test the limits of language and understanding....

Liza is still drowning in grief from losing the love of her life when she receives a visit from the most unlikely person — her husband, who she left five years ago. With no questions asked and no conditions made, Anton invites her back to his and the...

Follows the lives of four different people, each linked to the other by the house of business. Olivia, owner of the establishment, yearns for her late husband and denies the onset of old age. She lives with her appraiser Amy, a romantic who is doing ...

A socio-realist drama-comedy film, it follows a seemingly usual day in the life of Loida Malabanan as she embarks on yet another shooting day of a soap opera as an extra. As the shoot goes on, we get a glimpse of the truth in the ruling system of the ...

Stranded for 21 years, a shepherdess endures and fights for survival in a foreign land until hope arrives....

A public hospital serves as a witness to a young boy’s rite of passage when he is stuck to take care of his ailing father. Caught in a place where life itself is in limbo, the boy treats the hospital grounds as his playground, not knowing that it wil...

Maxi, a boy on the cusp of his teens, is already comfortable with his homosexual feelings, with acceptance from his family. When Maxi is assaulted one evening, Victor, a police officer, comes to his aid. Maxi soon develops a crush on Victor, who show...