Movies: Up Cinema

Newly crowned Miss KNL, Nadine, unexpectedly reunited with her younger brother at a convenience store, after she ran away from home. She walks her brother home, only to find out it is the last time....

A grieving widow attempts to find the missing piece of her husband's remains....

Ara, an incoming college student, gets ready to move out by packing her things. She discovers a stack of diaries and starts journeying through the memories of her childhood....

After years in the United States, Miguel returns to the Philippines as a young man. Revisiting his hometown in Pampanga, he is flooded with memories of dreams and cherished moments shared with his childhood friend Simon. Carrying a souvenir from Amer...

After their high school friend's wake, two best friends decide to 'pagpag' as they reconnect after five years....

A short film by Samantha Santelices....

A film by Silver Racca...

Two friends embark on a quest to uncover allegedly planted marijuana in the backyard of their town's mayor, only to encounter an appalling surprise....

From birth to guilt to death. Retracing a maternal relationship through archival footage....

When a rural village in the Philippines starts to vanish, leaving only carabaos as witnesses, a child plans out a journey to locate his lost father, revealing a secret that defies belief....

Pamagsadia tells the story of Tricia, a member of a multi-generational household whose members maintain a happy disposition despite the apparent deterioration of the grandfather. All the while, Tricia focuses on preparing for her university transfere...

A fishing community faces an impending demolition. One of the fisherfolks is Simon, a teenage boy, who had a menstruation in the middle of fishing....

It’s the last day of high school. Three misfits: Mike, Jeremy, and Marie are tasked to edit the graduation video. As they review the footage, their batchmate’s video contains a confession that their principal harassed her. The group has to decide whe...

Four science high school students struggle to complete their capstone project—all while dealing with an oppressive principal, academic pressure, personal conflicts, and questions about identity....

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 alone--and that's exactly what she gets. A story of loneliness and the realization that the human rela...

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An 11-year old vendor of pirated copies of films in a downtown capital tries every possible way in his position to watch a film for the very first time inside the comfort of a cinema....

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....

A man struggles to recollect the memories that he shared with his estranged father as he travels back to see him for the last time. In his journey, he confronts a fragmented yet important past that makes him question if he can trust his own memories....

A thesis short film by Hannah Gagalac....