ANGAN ANGAN (Dreams)

Screenplay by: Sheron Dayoc/Honelyn Alipio/Reagan Lee
Directed by: Sheron Dayoc 
Starring: Nur-Aima Sergio, Junaid Salahuddin

Angan-Angan (Dreams) centers on a nine-year-old girl named Satra who has been mute for as long as she could remember. Her determination to secure a good education reverberates clearly amid the strictness of her Yakan culture. The Yakan are one of the 13 Moro groups in the Philippines. They mainly reside in Basilan, Mindanao

Awards/Citations: Special Jury Citation - Cinemalaya Film Festival 2008, Official Selection, Indigenous Peoples Film Festival: Skábmagovat, Finland 2009, Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris 2009, Pacific Pipiline, LA, USA 2008, Paris Film Festival 2008, Kontra-Agos Film Festival 2007


GOD ONLY KNOWS

Directed by: Mark V. Reyes
Written by: Mark V. Reyes and Julie Oxendale
Starring: Angel Aquino, Robbie Felongco, Bon Vibar, Carme Sanchez 

The story starts in a dirty and decaying slum, a single mother named Maria is torn between her love for her 10-year-old son Santiago and providing a better life for him. In order to give Santiago a decent life, she decides to send him away for adoption. But what starts out as an innocent journey to the market quickly turns into a devastating loss for both mother and son.

Awards/Citations: First Prize and Best Director (Short Film) - Asian Hot Shots Berlin 2009


KAGAT NG DILIM (Dark Bites)

Written & Directed by: Cesar Hernando
Starring: Piolo Pascual, Roeder Camanag, Mike Lloren. Jess Evardone, Dido de la Paz, Yul Servo

Based on a true account in 1950 about a group of Huk guerrillas in Sierra Madre Mountains that fall prey, one by one, to an invisible enemy. The Huks who are killed are found to have two bite marks on their necks leading to talk that they were slain by "aswang" (vampire).

Awards/Citations: Participant - Singapore International Film Festival 2007, Participant - Archipelago Short Film Festival in Rome Italy 2007, Participant - Berlin Hot Shots 2008, Participant - Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France) 2008 


KAMERA (Camera)

Written and Directed by: Mikhail Red
Starring: Lav Diaz, Patricia Rollom, Jeck Mulat 

A camera will connect one generation to the next when a filmmaker befriends a little girl and teaches her how to use it.

Awards/Citations: Official Selection - 10th Cinemanila International Film Festival, 1st Prize Short Narrative - 20th Gawad CCP for Alternative Film and Video


KULTADO (Curdled)

Written and Directed by: Lawrence Fajardo
Starring: John Arceo, Bull Dilag, Johnrick Ylosorio, George Macainan, Feg Martir, Dennis Ascalon, Spitzie Yunque, Bebing Villanueva

Set in a chaotic market place in a small province, a young vegetable vendor seeks vengeance against a meat vendor, who is also the leader of a gang of butchers collecting “bribes” from other vendors in the market, bullying him as well as his brother and father. Witness the coming of age of a young boy as he desperately tries to assert himself and his family.

Awards/Citations: Special Jury Prize - Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival 2005, Gawad URIAN for Best Short Film 2006


LATA AT TSINELAS (Tin Can and Slippers)

Written and Directed by: Khavn de la Cruz
Starring: Jayson Placer, Daryl Reyes

Piling plays soccer with a tin can through the slums of Manila. A new Maradona? We follow Piling, a young soccer fanatic, through a slum district of Manila. No ball or cleats, but a Coke can and flip-flops are the ingredients for a virtuoso demonstration of the football art. Only at the end does it become apparent why the little ball juggler will never be a Ronaldinho.

Awards/Citations: Opening film of the 28th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2006, Artistic and Cultural Programme of the FIFA World Cup & Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies! Football Short Film Competition of the 55th Berlin International Film Festival Germany 2006, Tiger Cub competition & Kids Only section 34th Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2005


MUSA (Muse)

Written and Directed by: Dexter B. Cayanes
Starring: Nanding Josef, Ryza Cenon, Carlon Matobato, Lheoj DG Fernando, Mary Ann Janice Espinosa, Marjorie Galvez

In a community by the railroad, an old healer named Tatang performed a “miracle” when a young male lover had himself run over by a train. It is said that Tatang can heal with poetry and his Muse. Another cataclysmic event will make the community discover the next healer by the railroad.


PERFORMING NATURALNESS

Directed by: Dada Docot
Performed by: Dada Docot

Living for about four years in Japan, one Filipina has grown quite tired of the random and frequent questioning of the immigration police about her visa status. One day, she gets off at Shinagawa train station (the stop closest to the city's busiest immigration office) to conduct a small social experiment. This one-time performance/experiment was constrained by the use of a single roll of 8mm film which runs for only three minutes.

Awards/Citations: ALAB: Ten Best Student Short Films - ACTIVE VISTA FILM FESTIVAL November 2008, In Competition Documentary Category - 20th Cultural Center of the Philippines Independent Film & Video Competition


PUTOT

Written and Directed by: Jeck Cogama
Starring: Carl Patrick Taylan, Karen Grace Pilapil, Nor Domingo, Meryll Soriano

Putot, a young boy, lives in a squatter colony by the sea. He takes care of his mentally-ill father and ekes out a living selling mussels. He meets Mayang, a mysterious young girl with secrets of her own.

Awards: Best Short Film - Gawad URIAN Film Fest, Best Director (Short Feature) - Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2006, Official Selection - 2nd Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, 26th Hawaii International Film Festival, 29th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (in competition), Ismailia International Film Festival (in competition), Mumbai Third Eye Asian Film Festival (in competition)


SALAT (Touch)

Written and Directed by: John Torres
Starring: John Torres, Michael Cruz, Rom Villlaseran, Dino Lasquety

Salat is composed of several vignettes, snap-shots of urban life, juxtaposed once again with images of love, friendship and everyday life. There is a triptych in which the narrator muses on hope and the persistence of the spirit to want to carry on, against the background of a relationship that has quietly ended.

Awards / Citations : Winner Best Short Film, Young Cinema Night, 2005 Cinemanila Film Festival; Official Selection, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2006; Finalist, 2005 Chilean Festival of Short Films; Finalist, 2006 Best of Short Films Festival (La Ciotat, France); Official Selection, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2008; Official Selection, 2005 Singapore International Film Festival; Official Selection, Videolab Coimbra 2005 (Portugal); Official Selection, 5th Asian Film Symposium (Singapore); Official Selection, Faucet Media Arts Festival (New Brunswick, Canada); 
Official Selection, 2005 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival; Non-Competitive Selection, 2005 Portobello Film Festival (United Kingdom); Non-competitive Selection, Jakarta International Film Festival (via S-Express) 


TO SIOMAI LOVE

Written by: Dona Gimeno, Marvin Rubio, and Remi Sola
Directed by: Remton Siega Zuasola 
Starring: Dona Gimeno, Marvin Rubio, Nathaniel Rubio, Gerard Piodos

Deeply depressed and heartbroken, Marvin is forced by his brother to use a love potion so that his aching heart would be cured. While dining at a dumpling stall, 'Siomai Sa Tisa' (Siomai Of Tisa), he meets a pretty nursing student. After having a short conversation, he feels mysteriously drawn to her so he tries to use the love potion to win her heart. Will the love potion work, or will their love take its course even without it?