Up Film Institute Movies

A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in...

On the anniversary of her renowned musician sister's death, a young radio presenter revisits her unreleased demo tapes in the studio for a...

A university student learns that it is not so easy to borrow a library book. Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sari Estrada's segment in the anthology...

Film students Queenie, Izzie, and Angie encounter a masked man named Masculado who threatens to distort every film there is into his vision of queer...

Kamil confronts her personal struggles when deciding to devote her life to serve the people in the countryside. Her sacrifice is remembered through...

During the course of one night, a young journalist is set to finish his investigative report that will expose the private army of an influential...

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a...

A portrait of a woman surfer

Confined and isolated within the four corners of her room, a woman’s confusion grows as her room becomes smaller, with marks appearing after...

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...

Ling is in her last year in elementary school. One school day, her botanist father fails to pick her up and doesn't return home from fieldwork....

Reyna, head of the school choir and daughter of the Parish Office Chair is rattled once her meticulously orchestrated music group is disrupted by the...

In a Catholic high school in Bulacan, a farm boy’s bond with a sacristan forces him to grapple with faith, shame, and the space between heaven...

An experimental film on food, cycles, and life processes.

Annie must memorize a poem for school declamation and her grandmother, a former teacher, Nanay Bernadette helps her with her performance. But as...

On the eve of his departure, a father finds himself caught between the tender truth of who his son is and the harsh expectations of the macho world...

An elderly man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged son, but a mysterious black figure gets in the way.

Before leaving Pampanga for good, Tib Apostol finds himself looking for his best friend Tric Torres back in high school. Guided by a map his best...

A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.

A young girl on the brink of puberty wakes up one morning to find that her pet dog had escaped, leaving her with a wound in her vagina.