John Torres Movies

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

A mobile phone film shot in Mahiyan Street (Shy Street), Sikatuna, a stone's throw away from the house of Chavit Singson, who also led the masses to...

In Age of Blight, 12 Asian filmmakers capture and imagine life under the pandemic, from the hospital corridors of Marawi to protest rallies in the...

Composed of several vignettes that resemble snapshots of urban life; they are juxtaposed with images of love, friendship and everyday life.

　　One shot of things a girl at once did not see.

John Torres repurposes documentary footage captured from the sets of various Filipino productions (including the likes of Lav Diaz and Erik Matti)...

　　Friends of Los Otros make a group output during a 16mm film workshop conducted by visiting filmmakers Dianna Barrie and Richard Touhy...

Five years after their late brother's death, three siblings reunite in their hometown to celebrate her birthday with their 7-year-old niece who no...

Inspired by an artist's drawings in the South, I saw paintings that depicted the indigenous people's view of the origins of the world. The film is...

A film inspired by birds, planes, and flight. Based on a poem by Filipino writer Allan Pastrana.

Tuding sets out on a journey to a distant town to track down the man who got her youngest sister pregnant, and she’s not going home without...

TAWIDGUTOM is an experimental love poem composed of images that recur and repeat themselves.

After discovering a hidden clause in his work insurance, CELSO, a factory worker, goes extreme and faces a life-altering decision, challenging...

Stories of Filipino men and women, and other living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear time and dreams...

Film students Queenie, Izzie, and Angie encounter a masked man named Masculado who threatens to distort every film there is into his vision of queer...

Village miracles caught on tape: images of a river that must be crossed to erase heartaches, imagined with a boy who has never experienced sorrow.

"Mapang-akit" is an offshoot of a documentary project made with an Icelandic filmmaker and uses the outtakes from the Hudas Hudas festival in...

Black-and-white sequence of contemporary urban life, jittery images recorded by a 1940s motion-picture camera, and a sleepy narration of words,...

Rooted in Filipino realities – both concrete and cinematically reimagined – John Torres’ meticulous yet generous approach is a...