Movies: Mowelfund Film Institute

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and Raymond Red, Beyond Mainstream documents the robust energy of nascent independent filmmaking in the coun...

A juxtaposition of recurring images resulting in a montage of ideas aiming to tackle issues concerning the standard male viewpoint on the female body. How the "female body" counter-attacks is shown....

A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time....

A man crawls on the street of Manila at the height of EDSA Revolution....

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one....

Suring casts a spell of immense beauty, but is persecuted by humanity. She retreats to the forests, far from the prying eyes of humans. There, she befriends the Kuk-ok, a creature who can morph into any form....

This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary....

1988 film...

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Rumored to have used footage salvaged from a commercial studio dumpster, the film is a commentary on Filipino onscreen macho culture and one of the rare surviving works in the brief filmmaking career of Ramon ‘RJ’ Leyran. It was a product of the las...

Experimental essay film....

An expressionistic story of a soldier’s lament as he lies on his hospital bed 50 years after the Second World War....

A humorous but serious film about the "GARBAGE" in our country....

A bride walks on the desert. She takes off her bridal ornaments and turns into a harlot. A multitude of people crawl on their bellies, become sick and soon die. A volcano erupts. White ashes of lahar cover the earth. The bride remembers her betrothal...

Out of luck Boyong, a father of a sick child, tries to look for money....

Visual interpretation of original Filipino music in 5 parts....

An experimental comedy short from the Philippines....

A documentary on the "xenobiological" essay by one restituto A. Calampangan, Head Analytical Service, Philipine Orbital Research Center in the Year 2125...

A man finds answers and more questions as he looks beyond the water's surface....

In between harvests, to supplement their income, Judith is sent by her father to catch birds which they would peddle come Sunday outside the church. On their trip to the city, Judith requests that they watch a movie after selling off all the birds. W...