Movies: Francesca Dela Cruz


A mother and son’s generational clash over the American Dream and fulfillment at home boils over at a Filipino family dinner, erupting in a battle for the last lumpia – the dreaded “dyahe piece.”...

In the slums of Manila, 11-year-old Ginto dreams of gang life over scavenging, rejecting his sister Asia’s care as she turns to sex work to survive. As Ginto falls for another boy in the gang, he’s forced to confront his identity and desires amid vio...

A group of transgender women belonging to a gang kidnaps foreign men to fund their gender-affirming surgery, not knowing that their quest to free themselves to be who they are may end with them in prison....