Alipato: the Very Brief Life of an Ember
The title suggests small pieces of glowing charcoal that will die out soon, but more likely the movie is a wild and crazy fire that will keep on burning for a long time. The film is set in the...
Notes from Unknown Maladies
The filmmaker went back to his hometown to make a touching portrait of his sick grandmother. 94-year-old Concepcion has been suffering from nervous breakdown for the past 50 years. She chooses to...
Manila Scream
Scream as in the famous painting by Edvard MUNCH. Agony about modern times and hard city life in a monster town like Manila, Philippines. It is a live action film, but the background of the filmmaker...
Yours Trolley
The trolley is a rail trolley; it moves by hand power over an old railway and is used as illegal transport by poor people in Manila. The trolley brings the film into contact with the trolley driver...
Green Rocking Chair
A mix between fiction and documentary with the filmmaker himself as its main protagonist. It seems like the filmmaker hero is looking for the use of an old pre-colonial kind of writing (Baybayin) in...
Heaven for Insanity
Quite a shocking portrait of a mental institution in Jakarta, Indonesia. A madhouse that looks like a zoo or even an abattoir. A hard-to-imagine unpleasant place. The film follows one mad person,...
What They Don't Talk about When They Talk about Love
The film is set in an institution for handicapped children. Many of them are blind. The film sometimes has a documentary look, but also has fantasy moments. There is a professional actor like...
Dry Season in My House
Dancing in the rain. A woman surprises a man with a sensual dance in the wrong season. She made the rain, but the dancing comes by itself. An independent dance by a very independent woman. The...
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
A movie that is rich in cinematic innovations and full of absurd humour as well as serious content that it became legendary among the new generation of Southeast Asian filmmakers. Unlike most...