Joel Torre

Dr. Wesinger (Jürgen Prochnow) leads a team of scientists into the jungle, where they find the skeleton of a strange creature. Hoping to re-create the creature by extracting DNA from the bones, Wesinger enlists the help of Ash Mattley (Mark Dacacos). The experiment is successful, but a few years later the CIA asks Mattley to help track down Wesinger because he's turned the creature into a fierce killer and plans to sell it to the highest bidder.

A TV documentary crew arrive on a remote island in the Philippines to film a survival special. Their back-to-the-wild adventure proves to be more terrifying than they ever could have imagined.

A Filipino teenager is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out not only more about him but about the community of Filipinos in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug "shabu" on its youth. The detective who handles the case also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past. (imdb)

A complex film within a film that attempts to explore the myth of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal, director Mike De Leon's study in manufactured mythology attempts to explore the life of Rizal while simultaneously investigating his influence on modern Philippine society. (Fandango)

De Leon's personal adaptation of John Fowles' novel about a man who abducts women and keeps them in his isolated mansion, trying to subject them to his will. (Noel Vera)

One of the most influential and audacious filmmakers, Lav Diaz returns to this Festival with this epic meditation on the role of the artist and the rise of fundamentalism in the world today. His subject, a filmmaker, struggles to finish his latest work, while dealing with pressure from his co-workers, festival programmers, girlfriends and the press (tiff.net)

A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines. (imdb)

Jose Rizal's life and works are recounted through a series of non-linear flashbacks which reflect on various aspects of his life - as writer, propagandist, lover, friend, brother, doctor, and the man that inspired a revolution. (imdb)

A heist-caper-as-polit-pulp becoming an old-dark-house-tale with Moreau'ian dimensions becoming a monster movie becoming a love story becoming - the story of a glance askew - Sa ilalim ng Cogon is part Roger Corman, part Lucio Fulci, part Gerardo de Leon, and in that it's unique and strikingly original. (Olaf Möller)

The narrative plays with the idea of a retro-futurist world where a prisoner locked away in a dark chamber for over two decades only sees the reality of the world outside through the small hole in his cell, which projects an image of the city on his wall, the phenomenon of the "camera obscura". (Cinemalaya)

The story is about Tina Benitez (Andi Eigenmann) comes home from abroad to an empty house that she inherited from her parents. Not before long, strange things happen in the house, particularly in the kitchen, where an antique refrigerator is located. (Wikipedia)

On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage. (imdb)

After a business venture fails, an ex-priest, Lauro Pajaron is forced to move his wife and two daughters the back to their ancestral home to begin anew in the charcoal-making trade. Wracked by guilt over the betrayal of his priestly vows, Lauro witnesses the effect his inner torment has on those closest to him as each family member is forced to search for their own form of redemption. (KG)

In 1898, a band of Spanish soldiers heroically defended Baler (which was not yet the capital municipality of Aurora until 1951) against Filipino forces for 337 long and grueling days. The battle, now referred to as the Siege of Baler, is the setting of a forbidden love between a Mestizo soldier (Jericho Rosales) and a Filipina lass (Anne Curtis) who lived at the end of the 19th century.

The main character is a Filipina Overseas Contract Worker, one of the many residents of the archipelago who is forced to leave her family and take a higher paying job in a more prosperous Asian country. While she is working her employer refuses to let her take a vacation, nor does he deliver her mail to her. She is unaware, therefore, that her husband has died. When she finally returns to the Philippines she is met with resentment and hatred by her children. (imdb)

Shake, Rattle and Roll (1984) is the first of the popular series of Filipino horror movies composed of three episodes. (imdb)

Shortly after a one-night stand with a flight attendant, an airline pilot is faced with the possibility that he may be the father of her unborn child. (imdb)

Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man. Trisha's friends are left with no choice but to steal her body and hold the wake in a secret location. (imdb)

Narsing and Puring, a newlywed couple, come home to the village of Mulawin to live in the ancestral house of Narsing's father, Gusting, a land owner.

A young girl develops an unknown infection that causes her to evolve into a horrifying monster. (imdb)

Joselito (Aga Muhlach), an intellectually disabled man who is wrongfully charged with sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a little girl. In prison he becomes friends with his fellow inmates and together they form a plan to smuggle his young daughter (Xia Vigor) inside the cell. Years after, his daughter (Bella Padilla) becomes a lawyer and is determined to prove her father's innocence.

Milagros is a prostitute who becomes the maid of a family of four men. With them, she finds the family she never had. With her, each man finds the salvation he needs. Together, they begin to tear each other apart. (mel)

Filipino police investigating a case involving cult massacres and alleged child sacrifices suspect that a former United States FBI agent living in seclusion in an island paradise may be the key to solving this macabre case.

The decision of three siblings to sell their ailing mother's property causes deeply burried resentment to resurface as each of them also faces difficulties within their own families.

A hustler and the child he took in routinely con the wealthy - but a life-changing opportunity could end their inseparable bond.

A romantic comedy that centers around two very different people - Leah, a simple girl with an American dream; and Clark, a boy living his American life - who are forced to marry in order to legally stay and continue working in the United States. (imdb)

Being the legitimate son, Janus was given the stressful responsibility to take care of his father's funeral. With the presence of a senator, constant phone calls from his mother (who was in the United States), and the conflict between his scandalous sister and his father's mistress; the funeral became dramatic, chaotic, and hilarious. Pang MMK is about one's strength of character, overcoming adversities, and facing them headstrong.

What is the mystery behind the "Lady in White" at Balete Drive? Beware of the "third eye"--it will reveal your inner secrets.

The series centers around crime syndicates that temporarily release contracted prison inmates to carry out political assassinations for those in power, except that the crime syndicates are run by politicians. (imdb)

A mistaken identity leads to a promising opportunity when breadwinner Bambi comes home to her own funeral. Instead of correcting the comical mistake, Bambi, together with her dysfunctional family, decide to keep up the ridiculous act of her death in order to claim her 10 million peso life insurance in hopes of finally turning their dream life to reality.