The best of films from PHILIPPINES from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Short Film: Under the Table
Best Animation: Wetsitales : The Origin of the Echo
Best Direction: Spear
Best Story: When the Pigs Storm our Houses
Wetsitales : The Origin of the Echo
Making all the excuses to skip doing house chores and help at home. A boy found his ultimate excuse and continued to evade helping his mother until he was found out. The repercussions were eerie. A cautionary folktale from Bicol in the Philippines.
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UNDER THE TABLE, 20min., Philippines
Directed by BRANDEN JOSH City National High School Special Program in the DOMINGO
Jules, a troubled student on the brink of failure, is given a final chance to graduate through a documentary project on government transparency. He is paired with Aedan, a media-savvy honor student whose discipline and worldview sharply contrast with Jules’s rebellious nature. As they work together on the project, tension gradually gives way to understanding. What begins as an academic requirement leads them to uncover troubling patterns in local infrastructure projects and to confront truths they have long ignored. In the process, Jules’s world slowly opens up, and a quiet bond forms between them. In time, the project becomes more than just an assignment—it becomes a space for truth, courage, and unspoken emotions.
SPEAR, 17min., Philippines
Directed by Harvey Gozado
Hawil, a warrior consumed by guilt after killing his own brother, embarks on a harrowing journey in search of redemption. Along the way, he confronts ancient forces, painful truths, and monsters… both real and internal that threaten to break him. Hawil learns that healing comes not from forgetting the past, but in accountability, self-forgiveness, and transformation.
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When the Pigs Storm our Houses, 15min.
Directed by Miko Biong
Two boys, Kulas and Gabo, enjoy playing games together until an impending demolition of their community threatens their relationship.
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