Movies: Ditsi Carolino

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

A collective work, made at the beginning of the 1990s, was the result of a workshop lead by German filmmakers, such as Michael Wulfes and Christian Weisenborn. Its authors, who now belong among the stars of the Philippine cinema, depict intimate port...

In March 2020, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte imposed a strict lockdown in the capital, Manila, and surrounding areas. For Lito, his family, and millions of other urban slum dwellers across the city, a hard lockdown means no work. No work mean...

ino, a young balut (boiled fertilized bird egg) vendor, strides throughout the night in the streets of Cauayan City not only to sell his product but meet his friends and enjoy the night until he is being scolded the next morning for the insufficient ...

A film in two parts about a fierce and deadly battle raging between farmers and landowners in the Philippines. The first part tracks the Sumilao farmers’ gruelling 1,700-kilometer journey through scorching heat, rains, fatigue, and great uncertainty ...

Riles is a documentary about the life of a riles resident, Eddie, in a squatter area along the railroad tracks within the downtrodden section of Balic-balik, Manila....

After discovering she was adopted, daughter explores her biological father's hometown, hoping to uncover a life she was not aware of....

The fam workers of Hacienda Vicenta in La Castellana town in Negros Occidental are fighting for their right to own land under the Philippines’ Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). They were promised in 2012 that they will each get about one ...

The lives of random children from different parts of the Philippines, facing the same predicament of living life of arduous labor to cope with the harsh realities of poverty....

A documentary that explores injustice, neglect and perpetual helplessness....