A commuter waits for a ride under the sweltering Manila heat. As his impatience grows, he sets off on his walk home, putting on a pair of earphones as he begins listening to some music...
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. These ingredients transpose to random household objects while cooking until the person serves a dish scrambled with the most bizarre objects you could think of.
Indigo, a stuttering college student, finds a magic cubicle that transports him back in time. Upon abusing this power to improve his speech condition, Indigo gets lost in time and experiences the history of student activism in the university from the 2000s to the 1970s in the Philippines.
A thesis short film by Daryll Anuran.
An unlikely friendship forms when a fifteen-year-old graphic designer helps his stubborn grandmother digitally color her old black-and-white photos. But as they bicker and bond through each photo, they soon realize that memories are anything, but black-and-white.
A workaholic call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The pair becomes stuck in a limbo as they accidentally stop time at the same moment, leading them to confront the frozen world together.
A thesis short film written and directed by MXRDD.
To cope with his mother’s death, Anton, a graduating college student, adopts a pet fish - only to slowly discover how his grief and loneliness causes his emotions to grow more intense as strange fishlike traits appear around his body.
When Miguel is haunted by his dead ex, he is forced to heal emotional wounds by confronting feelings he has been suppressing.
A short thesis film by Zoe Olavides.
A graduating college student and her ill grandmother explore the nuances of their so-so relationship when grandmother suddenly requests help to acquire a vintage sewing machine. As they accumulate funds, the two realize their occasional bond through a challenging journey alongside grandmother's declining health.
Lets leave it all behind. Just for a little bit.
With the rise of a shopping mall inside a state university, Arnil, a local printing shop worker, expresses his plights as his established livelihood faces the threat of closure.