Realism Movies

Since the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, Metro Manila has been subjected to intermittent lockdowns with demeaning punishments. Despite the...

A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at...

After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a...

Art student Ian Jing impresses the realism-loving art teacher Mrs. Hui from the get-go. Following her advice, he draws exactly what he sees,...

An estranged daughter returns home to surprise her younger sister for her birthday.

A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth...

Part work of ethereal realism, part dance film, this contemporary-set short follows a young man facing the probability of an HIV+ diagnosis.

A final conversation between a recently separated couple on their last night together before parting ways.

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

Although the past two years have been challenging for the Theatre industry, they also showed its incredible strength and resilience. Through...

When an underachieving writer spontaneously hosts his former best friend on a layover, he is forced to grapple with their complicated past and...

A young adult silently drowning in trauma, yearning to let out what’s inside of him, navigates a series of encounters—each revealing...

At daybreak, a mother and daughter muse over loss, pain, and absence.

Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by...

An experimental attempt that examines the four corners of the inner zoned quarantine world to question a person.

Award-winning documentary Resilience & Sacrifice follows an emerging musician who shelved his dreams to raise his family. Years later, he returns to...

The war in Ukraine continues to leave indelible scars, but beyond military strategies and political speeches, there are stories that are rarely told:...

An uncommon story, of a common man.

A man who spends his nights offering emotional support struggles to confront his own inner life by day. Aspiring to be a writer, he drifts through...