Up Film Institute Movies

The wife of a middle-aged stone miner bears child while he is in a relationship with an enchanted black figure. A fettered commitment to an unborn...

An influencer tries to escape her failed nature vlogging adventure after her hiking trip gets disrupted by a witch scare.

Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by...

A few days before his sacred transformation, Pablo, a neophyte Tikbalang, hasn't fully accepted his fate, alongside a crisis in his own identity;...

After their high school friend's wake, two best friends decide to 'pagpag' as they reconnect after five years.

Ara, an incoming college student, gets ready to move out by packing her things. She discovers a stack of diaries and starts journeying through the...

After an earthquake hits her province, a distressed young bride wanders around the city to find a new home, and possibly, a new existence.

Ren, a gay college student, half-halfheartedly lets go of his activist suitor Lenny, believing that his rebel partner is still alive despite rumors...

A man struggles to recollect the memories that he shared with his estranged father as he travels back to see him for the last time. In his journey,...

A year has already passed since the pandemic started but we still find ourselves waiting for something as time continuously ticks and as our hearts...

While haunted by memories of a tragic event, a stubborn writer unwittingly unleashes a familiar presence that will stop at nothing to fulfill what it...

The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them.

Fifty years into a Philippines riddled with rising prices and scarcity in local produce, a person travels to the wet market to look for ingredients....

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...

Decaying handwritten letters, photos, objects and spaces— of all the traces that were left, rekindling and remembering mundane things after a...

An 11-year old vendor of pirated copies of films in a downtown capital tries every possible way in his position to watch a film for the very first...

A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death.

Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib Apostol finds himself looking for his best friend Tric Torres back in high school. Guided by a map his best...

After years in the United States, Miguel returns to the Philippines as a young man. Revisiting his hometown in Pampanga, he is flooded with memories...

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...