Movie Review: The Lunchbox

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. 

Soap Opera Poster and Teaser - Cinema One Originals Film Festival 2014 Official Entry

Cinema One Originals Film Festival 2014 Opening Night

Movie Review: Tigbao

Its been 16 years since Mang Celio's son has gone missing. When a forensic team arrives to investigate the disappearances, Mang Celio goes through a range of emotions as he unearth his truths.

Movie Review: Nick and Chai

On Nov 2013, Super Typhoon Hyian claimed the lives of Nick and Chai Quieta's four children, leaving them with nothing but each other and a house torn to pieces. Now, four months later, we step inside the Quieta home and observe how they cope with their loss. What is it really like to loose all your kids all of a sudden?

Movie Review: Tres

Faith, Love, Time and Dr. Lazaro, Tata Selo and, Sandaang Damit; three short stories written by multi-awarded Filipino fiction writers, Gregorio Brillantes, Rogelio Sicat, and Fanny Garcia transformed into three short films.

Movie Review: Little Azkals

The Philippine Football team Azkals' miraculous winnings in Asia started a wave for the country that we too can eye for the most coveted World Cup. For the first time in history, The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) has launched a search for the next Philippine Azkals who will undergo training for the 2019 World Cup qualifier. More than 1000 boys from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao tried their lucks. Only 22 are selected. This documentary film is a story of dreams.

Movie Review: In Darkness We Live

After a bank robbery gone wrong, the gang drives out of town to hide but they run out of a gas on a deserted road and go on foot deep into the woods. There they find an old dilapidated house occupied by a mysterious woman and her grandmother. As they insist on staying, the grandmother tells them that it is the night of Ang Kumakatok (Those Who Knock), a mythical being who takes away a soul from the occupants of the house they knock. As the dead of night unfolds, we realize who they all really are and when the knock comes, none of them can run away from an evil that stays in their soul.

Movie Review: Cemetery Life

 

The Metro Manila cemetery is built like a ghost town, one and two-storey high mausoleums, with winding staircases and air-conditioning, were built as the last refuge for the wealthy deceased. Social Outcasts have discovered this place, and have begun moving into these Villas of the Dead. An infrastructure was formed, complete with shops, karaoke joints and cosmetic salons built within the tombs. At first sight, it seems almost idyllic, the poor who have set up their homes within these walls, live in a makeshift suburban Utopia.

Movie Review: Ang Di Paglimot Ng Mga Alaala

A young woman grasps at the memories her mother left - leading to a vicious cycle of remembering, of forgetting, of mourning. This is a story of a daughter's grief and her struggle to preserve happy memories and un-remember painful ones.

Movie Review: Bigkis

Bigkis is a progressive drama that reveals many of the problems and intense pressure in an overcrowded public maternity hospital. It tells the story of Mariel, an inner-city teen and a member of a band faced with the realization of  an unwanted pregnancy and its consequences. It also tells the story of Eden, diligent young hospital attendant who witnesses all the predicament of these unfortunate individuals.