Gina Alajar – MRQE

Tatlo… Magkasalo

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Elsie has a mistress named Alice. Tito has a mistress named Susan. Tito and Elsie are married to each other and expecting a baby!

Mystery of the Night

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Spanish-ruled Philippines, 1800s: A woman, raped and banished to the woods on a full moons night, sees her newborn child swallowed by animalistic shadows lurking in the foliage. Raised by the forests mysterious ghouls and demons boars, wild cats and a many-eyed sage the child grows.

Madilim ang Gabi

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Dutertes violent war on drugs when their son goes missing.

Ded na si Lolo

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A large family with lots of issues gather together to mourn the death of the family patriarch. But getting in the way of their genuine grief are a bunch of superstitions about the dead, and the family’s inability to deal with their issues in a civilized way.

Condemned

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Yolly, a flower vendor and her brother Efren, who works as a driver and hired hit man for ruthless money laundering lady Connie, live a hardscrabble and bleak existence in the underbelly of the tourist/fashion district of Manila. Escaping from a violent past from the provinces, the siblings world collide with Connie’s gang when Yolly witnesses a rape and murder perpetrated by Connie’s son and Efren decides to double cross Connie for her money.

Ang huling birhen sa lupa

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A priest visits a small seaside town. Miling a former nun who now teaches catechism on the island thinks that father Emman is the priest she sent for. She believes that a priest would help revive the townspeople’s faith in God by putting up bars and girly joints.

Mga munting tinig

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Melinda 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. The children are indifferent to their studies, having been affected by the hopelessness around them. Melinda tries to motivate them by capitalizing on their interest and talent in singing. She takes advantage of a funding opportunity to enter them in a choral contest. She encounters some resistance, however, from the school administration and from the parents of her students. Furthermore, the death of one of the choral groups members at the hands of the Armed Forces of the Philippines casts a pall on their once joyful preparations. Melinda, however, constantly tries to rise above these challenges.

Birds of Prey

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Filipino dancer performing for the US Filipino community

Ipaglaban mo: The Movie

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The melding together of two separate stories that share a similar premise – each detail the account of a young Filipino woman who becomes a victim of sexual violence and takes her attacker to court.

Caged Fury

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At a hidden prison camp deep in the jungles of South East Asia, some devious Vietnamese commies are kidnapping beautiful women and brainwashing them into becoming subliminally-activated suicide bombers to further their evil aims abroad. Help isn’t going to be coming anytime soon, so the all-female inmates must engineer their own escape any which way they can…