Movies: Mes de Guzman

Three friends wait along Dalton Pass every dawn to jump at the back of rice delivery trucks to steal the goods and sell it at the wet market as their means of income. One of them accidentally gets a pack of drugs in one of the trucks they jumped and ...

Two half-brothers from the Isinay tribe, long separated, reunite and join a sepak takraw—or kickball—team, a sport considered a national game in the Philippines. As they face the challenges of the game, they also confront deep-seated family issues an...

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 loaded with complications?...

Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. Renowned line producers Jon and Carol Red hatched the idea of revisiting the 1986 EDSA revolu...

The film depicts the troubles of Jonas and his sisters Carmina and Tricia , who have moved to their family’s old farm after Jonas’ real estate business sank. Jonas hires the help of some local men to put up a fence around their property, and while th...

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

Every night, Nana Lusing lies on her bed sleepless because she sees a dark figure looming in her room. Who is this shadow? Is this the devil? Her late husband? A manifestation of her anxieties? Or simply a figment of her imagination?...

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

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement....

Welcome to the hometown of Yoyong, Poklat, Boying and Uding. Here, there are no big shopping malls, no tall buildings. There are only huge mountains and vast fields as far as the eye can see, and clouds that seem to be always embracing the mountains....

A brother and sister trek over mountains, cross rivers, and walk over a bridge between cliffs to and from school. After school, they take care of pigs and their ill grandfather in bed. At night they dine with their older brother and do homework. Look...

Only the famous family that doesn't weep can help reunite a desperate woman with her own....

Carlito is getting married. But he doesn't dare tell his parents. He also takes advantage of the safety of the bartering rural community from which he commutes back and forth to work....

A film about two sibling-streetchildren whose daily sustenance depends on selling rags and wiping windshields of passing motorcars on busy thoroughfares. In spite of being constantly exposed to traffic hazards and other hassles, the two managed to su...

Good fortune does a family more harm than benefit in this independent drama from author and filmmaker Mes de Guzman. Young Vergel left his family to take as job as a miner, and following a long stretch away from home he returns and enjoys a reunion w...