The life of Divino Maligalig as he walks through the valley of the shadow of death
Here are seven stories from seven of the most interesting young filmmakers from Cebu, each of them filled with memorable characters. On a Black Saturday, two kids put their friendship to the test; a fortune teller discovers his own bad luck; a woman strolls around a foliage and…
Violet, a socially-inept high school student, starts to have visions of the Virgin Mary. Joshua, Violet's father and a pastor, after knowing about her daughter's visions, immediately disapproves of it. He assumes that she is just sick. It then becomes an interplay between spirituality and medicine.
Merry just wants to focus on her studies to secure her future, discarding romances and relationships as nonsensical distractions. She wants to get in the toughest university in the country, S.H.U (Super Hard University). But life throws her a curve-ball in the form of a mystical…
London Blander, a former child prodigy artist/painter, has not been able to paint for the past 15 years after her little brother Tim died in a car accident. She keeps on seeing images of Casati, an early century woman who used to call herself a "living work of art." Casati soon…
For better and for worse, wine has changed during its encounter with the palate or Robert Parker, the American wine critic whose numerical wine rating system became controversial and popular. ESCAPING ROBERT PARKER presents passionate winemakers for and against Parker's global…
Helmed by three female directors, this omnibus features three films set in China, Thailand and Singapore respectively. Each story occurs at a specific mealtime, and seeks to interpret the frailties and complexities of love through different Asian perspectives. All three stories…
Young rock star Des Gilroy suffers a stroke on stage and spends the next forty years in NHS nursing homes as a cripple. He is eventually expelled for a series of misdemeanours and is forced to move in with his brother. An argument with the squatters next door escalates into a…
In the 50's, the psychiatrist Max Raphael is hired to work as superintendent of an asylum in the outskirts of London, and he moves with his wife Stella Raphael and their son Charlie. Stella has a passionless marriage and is ignored by Max; her boredom changes when her son…
Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother unhappily married to Geoff and…
A graying husband struggles with persistent trips to the bathroom to relieve his bladder in order to afford his wife and himself a night of peace and rest.