Albert Banzon Movies

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on...

Mabuti accidentally finds a stash of money that could bring an end to her family’s financial problems: is the solution that simple or is it...

Set at the inauguration of the new President is the inter-woven tales of people dealing with daily lives: their relationships, desires and their...

Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply...

A man's friends hire a prostitute on his birthday for him to lose his virginity. But after finding out that she is a middle-aged woman, they decide...

As a typhoon bears down on a sleepy rural town in the Philippines, strange events and even stranger behaviour foreshadow the watery catastrophe to...

In the darker side of Manila-by-night, tribes of youthful gangsters roam the streets in search of quick fixes and precarious thrills. World-weary...

Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film...

Eight year-old Yael, shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. One day she finds out about a pen that can "translate" the thoughts and feelings...

In the near future, Manila is an almost-utopian city, but they still believe in ghost stories. Nobody survives the mysterious blackouts that happen...

A story about three children struggling in a depressed neighborhood with their means of survival arriving from the package given to them by their...

Impoverished, childless and living in a garbage dump, Miguel and Lina become instant celebrities when Lina miraculously becomes pregnant. But Lina...

A documentary that examines the peculiarities of religion, labor, capital and gender all intersecting at a Catholic figurines factory in the...

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a...

Life turns riveting for Nanong when the tabloid-format reality TV show, AKIN ANG KORONA chances upon his curious life in a sleepy seaside town in...

Raped and pregnant, an OFW rids herself of unwanted baggage on the flight back home.

Paul is a restless twenty-something who cannot get his life together. Worse, he’s been holding on to his love towards Red, his best friend...

Amid legalized corruption, a son struggles to prove to his father that he is fit to survive in a dog-eat-dog society.

Orphaned brothers in the Southern Philippines stay with their relatives and take dangerous work.

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.