Up Film Institute Movies

During the course of one night, a young journalist is set to finish his investigative report that will expose the private army of an influential...

An elderly man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged son, but a mysterious black figure gets in the way.

Gay teenager Girly looks for a job in a world he is unaware of.

A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in...

In a culture where designs are dreamt about and to be woven only by women, a T’boli man is challenged to face a cultural norm as the abaca...

Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.

After a violent encounter with the police during a rally, a young boy is offered possible release by his detainees at great personal cost.

Ling is in her last year in elementary school. One school day, her botanist father fails to pick her up and doesn't return home from fieldwork....

With the world ending in ten days, a flamboyant gay worker endures a string of brutal jobs in a collapsing Manila, desperate to earn enough for a...

Jun is a farmer who lives near a pineapple field with his mother Dita and his brother Mako. His aunt from Manila who can’t bear a child offers...

Ikalimampung Palapag is an experimental short film delving into the various interpretations of the five stages of mental health recovery.

A film by Kit Munsayac.

An unlikely friendship forms when a fifteen-year-old graphic designer helps his stubborn grandmother digitally color her old black-and-white photos....

A university student learns that it is not so easy to borrow a library book. Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sari Estrada's segment in the anthology...

Marco, troubled by past trauma and depression, encounters a cheerful boy named Makoy amidst the mysterious disappearance of the moon.

A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.

A film producer must convince his misogynistic long-time colleague, the film director, to opt for the feminist costume for the superhero film they...

A call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The two become stuck in a limbo as...

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers.

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a...