Angeli Bayani

Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.

In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law school dropout commits a horrific double murder, a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. At their best, Lav Diaz’s marathon movies reveal just how much other films leave out. In his devastating twelfth feature (at over four hours in length, one of his shortest), the broad canvas accommodates both the irreducible facts of individual experience and the cosmic sweep of time and space. A careful rethinking of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment shot in blazing colour, this tour de force offers a masterful recapitulation of Diaz’s longstanding obsessions: cultural memory, national guilt, and the origin of evil. The wounds and defeats of Filipino history loom large in each of Diaz’s films. Fabian, the tortured anti-hero superbly played by Sid Lucero, may well be his most indelible creation, a haunting embodiment of the dead ends of ideology.

Set in Singapore, Ilo Ilo chronicles the relationship between the Lim family and their newly arrived maid, Teresa. Like many other Filipino woman, she has come to this city in search of a better life. Her presence in the family worsens their already strained relationship.Jiale, the young and troublesome son, starts to form a unique bond with Teresa, who soon becomes an unspoken part of the family. But this is 1997 and the Asian Financial Crisis is beginning to be felt in the region...

A former radio star has a bittersweet 80th birthday in the slums of Manila remembering her family and the stability of life she enjoyed in her past.

To protect her three children from Philippino drug lords, a newly widowed mother becomes a police informant after her husband is mysteriously killed.

Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl's duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy

Julian, the lone soldier stationed on Kalayaan Island, is sent two men when rumors of a coup circulate. As he confronts his loneliness, he confronts a traumatic experience from his past.