Random People(2021)

Alimungaw: Filming In A Time Of Uncertainty(tl)

Filming in a Time of Uncertainty is a short documentary film that follows a small team of filmmakers, who are based in the region in Mindanao, as they struggle to shoot a film amidst the trying times of the pandemic. And how they were able to comply with the community's minimum health guidelines, while observing the basic health care, in spite of the intricacies of the film industry’s standard health protocols.

Akong Pinalangga(tl)

A tribute to the people that we fear to lose, and for the ones that we have lost. It is a story about the fear that we have to face as the new normal.

The Right To Life(tl)

A Manobo tribe flees from fear only to find themselves in another dreadful situation: a lockdown due to the pandemic.

From Itogon To London(tl)

A young entrepreneur meets a group of coffee farmers and finds the inspiration to continue despite the pandemic.

Soul Fish(tl)

As the global pandemic affects more than half the world, the Family Chan tries to cope with the seemingly permanent quarantine and the claustrophobic circumstance of being together.

Lonely Girls(tl)

A woman with falling hair, anxious about her online work, a child unable to leave her room in a power outage, and a yoga buff with body issues, all encounter an unseen terror while alone in their urban middle-class homes during the nationwide quarantine.

Framed(tl)

In a period beset by a plague, the visionary’s portal to his soul has been thwarted by the four corners of his abode. With imagination as the only detour, the drifting of thoughts is inevitable. Amidst the overcast, the curtain opens to the apparent truth – truth that no frame can impede a visionary.

Joy Is My Mother's Name(tl)

In transit, Carlo reminisces the blissful memories of his beloved mother, Joy, who died a few months ago while the country was in lockdown facing a worldwide pandemic. As he returns to his hometown Pampanga to reunite with his family, he will be facing a first birthday without his mother.

A Meditation on the Possible Ending of the Mythical Bird Adarna(tl)

The night before the lockdown, while reviewing some unused footages from my latest film project (Hinulid), a small box from an anonymous sender arrives. The box contains a Bikol translation of the Tagalog long poem, Ibong Adarna, and an egg.

The New Faces of Dreams and Mysteries(tl)

An exploration of how we use the masks as our new faces in these trying times. It shows a perspective of what life is like during the pandemic through poetry, metaphor, movements, and the use of painted masks.

Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni(tl)

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta. Ana Nicolas (Philippine Normal College, 1964).

Flame(tl)

A filmmaker’s reflection about his life during the pandemic, as "the flames are climbing up the wall."

Kneading Nothing(tl)

It’s December 2020, more than nine months of community quarantine in the Philippines. The idea of nothingness is actual and symbolic. With imposed restrictions in the physical world, how can we tell our personal and collective stories of living under the “longest COVID-19 lockdown in the world”? Confined at home, physical and non-physical boundaries are magnified as the filmmaker attempts to articulate existence through floating in time and space.

Meenakshi Amman & the Marvel of Madurai(en)

History TV18 invite you to celebrate the divine wedding of goddess Meenakshi Amman and lord Sundareshwar from your home. Watch 'Meenakshi Amman & The Marvel Of Madurai'.

Resident Evil Damnation: The DNA of Damnation(ja)

The DNA of Damnation is a documentary short on the making of the 2012 film, Resident Evil: Damnation.

Kumbh: Among the Seekers(en)

The Kumbh is more than a spiritual gathering. It is a confluence of tradition, technology & teamwork. A congregation of faith, hope and consciousness. It's the most unique experience on this planet. Watch 'Kumbh: Among The Seekers'. HistoryTV18 will present a one-hour special about the world’s most spectacular human gathering, the Kumbh Mela. The incredible festival is widely known to be the largest peaceful gathering on the planet.

PNL - Dans la légende tour(fr)

Live recording of French rap duo PNL playing songs from their album "Dans la légende" and more at the Bercy Arena in Paris.

Daughters of Scheherazade(ml)

The film traces the figure of virgin and places her in an amorous encounter with pleasure and pain, body and mind, the historical and the lived. It presents wedding night as a liminal event and projects the liminality of the event onto a psychic landscape. Placed at the edge of time, the nuptial chamber in the film becomes the feminine place of contemplation. The film is a search for the shadowy, nocturnal and the oneiric.

Gene Kelly, vivre et danser(fr)

Ordinary People(en)

Far right and anti-immigration politics have been on the rise worldwide. In Australia, as in many other western countries, as Ordinary People was filming, a new political force began drawing on the discontent of those who felt excluded from the promised benefits of globalisation. This revealing documentary follows One Nation candidate Colene Hughes over two years and two elections as her idealistic fervour slowly turns to disillusionment. Initially for Colene and her supporters, One Nation seems to offer true democracy and a way of knocking the country back into shape. But when Colene starts to question the control of party leaders, the gloves come off and, at the party’s annual general meeting, the two forces collide.