Alessandra de Rossi

Melinda (Alessandra de Rossi) is a new substitute teacher at the Malawig Elementary School, located in a poor remote barrio. A young university graduate, her family expects her to look for work abroad, but in her idealism she takes on a challenging job in the provincial public school, which lacks resources and has corrupt personnel. The heavy monsoon rains and the nearby NPAs also add to her difficulties.

Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve and her hell is about to begin. (imdb)

Mimicking early silent films, Independencia creates a lush metaphor that plays with cinematic illusions and the cultural and mythical history of the Philippines. (imdb)

In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug addict who tries to rebuild his sense of self and reconnect with the people around him. For the "Night" segment, Pascual portrays the role of Philip, who works as a bodyguard for a mayor's son. The bodyguard believes that his boss considers him as part of the family but after a shooting incident, he realizes his real worth to his boss. As he struggles to hide, he is slowly consumed by the claws of darkness lurking the city. (imdb)

The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for - Filipino guest workers - Manuel and Dado. (imdb)

Gina Alajar plays a woman who dominates illegal activities in an old district of Manila. Her family's welfare has to be weighed against the interests of the criminal business she runs with her children. (Film Festival Rotterdam)

Baybayin is set in the pristine coast of El Nido, Palawan. It tells the story of two half sisters (played by real-life siblings Assunta and Alessandra de Rossi) who fall in love with the same man (Adrian Sebastian) who is deaf mute. Having no way of communicating with the love of their lives, both women learn Baybayin -- an ancient Palawanon script -- and communicate with him by writing in that script. (Pinoy Rebyu)

In Busong, Alessandra de Rossi plays Punay, who is born with wounds on her feet and cannot step on the earth. Her brother, Angkarang, carries her through a hammock, as he searches the changing landscape of Palawan in hopes of finding a healer who can cure Punay. Different people help him carry his sister along the way - a woman looking for her husband, a fisherman who lost his boat, and a young man who is searching for himself - and each one meets their fate. (busongpalawanfate.com)

For the sake of her son, Paolo, Stella is re-married to another man, Anton, in the hopes of a having a whole and peaceful family life. However, after the wedding, she experiences major haunting that endangers her life and the people around her. All the clues are pointing to her dead husband. Feeling guilty of her ex-husband's death, Stella tries to save her family from the ghost's wrath. Secrets start to unravel and Stella is now unsure of who is haunting her and why she is being haunted.

Before he became one of the world's greatest boxers, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was a young boy living a hand-to-mouth existence, trying to survive from one day to the next. When he discovers his natural talent for boxing, he embarks on a brutal and intense journey that takes him from the mountains of the Philippines to the streets of Manila, and must risk everything to become a champion - for himself, his family, and his country. (imdb)

The search for the body of Andres Bonifacio. (imdb)

A blind woman falls in love with a man who uses kindness and humor to make a connection with her. (imdb)

Ben and Jen's relationship is put to test as they embark on a trip of a lifetime to Jen's lifelong dream destination - Iceland.

After her husband is mysteriously killed in the drug wars of the Philippines, a widowed mother of three must confront her own darkness to protect her children from further harm.

Jojo, a Filipino artist had many lovers and heart is held captive by a woman with no name and no history. One day, a woman named Marie, walks up to Jojo and claims to be the subject of his paintings for years.

When a pair of newlywed musicians get trapped in a storm on their island honeymoon, they face difficult truths that could tear their marriage apart. (rottentomatoes.com)

A man unearths a coffin containing the remains of his child which stirs up the enitre township as the body has hardly decomposed at all. Could it be that she is miraculous, a saint in the making?

Follows a little child who, after hearing tales from his mother at bedtime, sets off to find the fabled island of fireflies.

When a head chef falls into a coma, it's up to his devoted sous-chef to keep their Filipino fine dining restaurant from closing down. (imdb)

Notorious murderer set for release from prison. New corrections officer determined to keep him incarcerated by any means, despite lack of legal grounds. Explores conflict between justice, personal vendetta, and moral boundaries.