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...

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...

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....

On the anniversary of her renowned musician sister's death, a young radio presenter revisits her unreleased demo tapes in the studio for a...

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...

“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...

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...

Kamil confronts her personal struggles when deciding to devote her life to serve the people in the countryside. Her sacrifice is remembered through...

A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.

A portrait of a woman surfer

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

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

The Reyes family prepares to take a family portrait.

In a Catholic high school in Bulacan, a farm boy’s bond with a sacristan forces him to grapple with faith, shame, and the space between heaven...

After losing her job at the end of a stressful finals week and having no choice but to move back home with her family, Nel wishes nothing but to be...

On the eve of his departure, a father finds himself caught between the tender truth of who his son is and the harsh expectations of the macho world...

After being forced out of school, Kokoy, 20, finally finds hope after landing a job interview. Little does he know that he is living a real-life loop...

On unearthing the identity that we've buried in the efforts to level ourselves with cultures that are not our own: In the struggle to move forward,...

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

A middle aged couple—Leila, a human resourcer officer, and Felix, a ride hailing app driver—will find their seemingly lifeless routine...