Gym Lumbera Movies

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 silent film by Jet Leyco.

The story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when video games were still a novelty....

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War...

Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves...

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.

The film opens with images of a sorrowful young woman. The film concludes with images of a desperate young man fleeing into a jungle. In between,...

Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.

A small town in the Philippines is turned upside down by the arrival of a film crew that has everyone excited. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Lukas finds his...

BIG BOY is a coming-of-age tale about a boy and his family in 1950s Mindoro, Philippines, and how he is groomed into becoming the poster boy for his...

Charles, an engineering student with an eye for beauty, just returned from school to a dormitory owned by Aling Linda, a strict, lonesome widow....

Jungle Love follows a handful of people who have disappeared into the jungle: a woman who has kidnapped her sister's child; an urbane couple and...

At first, there was Tagalog, Gym Lumbera’s short and, to his mind, unfinished narrative about the infidelity that comes between a husband and...

An endless night with a couple enclosed in a room that divide their personal lives from their true characters.

Once upon a time, you were born. In the Philippines, there was no science education when you were a child. When they began to offer it in your...

A local albino is searching for his identity. Believing that he is the son of an American, he tries to learn English through reading translations and...

Gym Lumbera’s Dahil Sa’yo situates its melancholic romance between an old man and a banana tree set in the director’s native...

A nursery rhyme hovers over shadowy fragments of time, of arrivals and departures and the illusion of passage they evoke.