Movies: Up Cineastes Studio

Minjae is a Korean-Filipino teenager who is often discriminated against for being mixed-blood. His utmost desire to belong to the homogeneous and hierarchical Korean society is tested when his single Filipina mother decides to send him to the Philipp...

The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them....

Just as she was about to give up on her pursuit of companionship, traumatized, nine-year-old Sol meets and befriends a forest spirit on her tenth birthday, making way for an exploration of healing, identity, and desire in the remaining days before sh...

An influencer tries to escape her failed nature vlogging adventure after her hiking trip gets disrupted by a witch scare....

A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death....

Three strangers meet at a party one night and discover hidden desires, sins, and guilt when they realize that they are in the netherworld....

While haunted by memories of a tragic event, a stubborn writer unwittingly unleashes a familiar presence that will stop at nothing to fulfill what it was summoned to do....

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 religious group. His work is interrupted by an e-mail from his source informing him about the recent conf...

A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of friends and admir...

A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memorie...

A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he still has the gift to make people laugh....

Struggling to pay for his 16-year-old daughter’s laptop, a conscientious father applies for a product loan purchase after getting convinced by a plausible saleslady in a very unusual IT retail shop....

Cedric goes to the wake of his deceased lover, James. While trying to gather the courage to tell James' mother, Carol, about their relationship, both Cedric and Carol journey through their memories with the departed. The film tackles grief and the ma...

Two strangers walking in a circular road find themselves in another place where they have to drift in the middle of who they are and who they want to be....

“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 movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; s...

25-year-old Frank lives in a shared space with a close friend. As they talk about difficulty in commuting and employment in the time of pandemic, and his friend’s sudden mention of biking, he now needs to face remembering an event that he long buried...

Short and innocent glimpses of human relationships through the lens of a photobooth aching for connection....

Two boys, Kulas and Gabo, enjoy playing games together until an impending demolition of their community threatens their relationship....

Ace, a closeted gay guy, learns Judo in a class full of straight men, channeling his inner Mulan....

Ana embarks on a captivating journey back to her roots in Cabanatuan City for her grandmother’s grand 75th birthday celebration....