Up Film Institute Movies

During the course of one night, a young journalist is set to finish his investigative report that will expose the private army of an influential...

An elderly man tries to repair his relationship with his estranged son, but a mysterious black figure gets in the way.

Ikalimampung Palapag is an experimental short film delving into the various interpretations of the five stages of mental health recovery.

Gay teenager Girly looks for a job in a world he is unaware of.

Ling is in her last year in elementary school. One school day, her botanist father fails to pick her up and doesn't return home from fieldwork....

Jun is a farmer who lives near a pineapple field with his mother Dita and his brother Mako. His aunt from Manila who can’t bear a child offers...

A girl attempts to go back to her normal routine after a recent messy breakup with her boyfriend. However, her past keeps intruding on the present in...

Set in the late 2000s, a payphone booth at an all-girls Catholic school stands witness to the intimate performance of its callers.

In a culture where designs are dreamt about and to be woven only by women, a T’boli man is challenged to face a cultural norm as the abaca...

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers.

A film by Kit Munsayac.

An unlikely friendship forms when a fifteen-year-old graphic designer helps his stubborn grandmother digitally color her old black-and-white photos....

A call center applicant manipulates time during his interview only to find out his interviewer could do the same. The two become stuck in a limbo as...

A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times.

After losing her job at the end of a stressful finals week and having no choice but to move back home with her family, Nel wishes nothing but to be...

“Pusong Bato” (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a...

a film by Jill Go-Soco

While rehearsing for their next performance, a ballet dancer is haunted by echoes of the past.

With the world ending in ten days, a flamboyant gay worker endures a string of brutal jobs in a collapsing Manila, desperate to earn enough for a...

Five years of silence end when former high school best friends, Ethan and Gio, both cramming for finals, unexpectedly reunite at a cafe. With the...