The Decaying

The Story of Mabuti(tl)

Mabuti accidentally finds a stash of money that could bring an end to her family’s financial problems: is the solution that simple or is it loaded with complications?

Inagaw Mo ang Lahat sa Akin(tl)

In a quiet, rural Filipino village, sibling rivalry continues through adulthood for two sisters and finally tears their family apart.

Anita's Last Cha-Cha(tl)

A 12-year old Anita falls in love with the new woman in town; years later, a girlhood crush blossoms during the Fiesta of Santa Clara in Obando, Bulacan.

Manila in the Fangs of Darkness(tl)

A man follows a woman through the streets.

Albino(tl)

A local albino is searching for his identity. Believing that he is the son of an American, he tries to learn English through reading translations and definitions from a Tagalog-English dictionary.

Lauriana(tl)

Orphan Carding befriends Army Captain Samuel Corazon, who’s stationed in his town to root out the remaining Huk guerrillas. At the dance hall, Corazon woos dancer Lauriana, and they soon move in together. The two become sort of surrogate parents for the orphan Carding, with Corazon teaching him the ways of men. But the soldier has a dark side, and Carding becomes witness to the violence occurring in their home, and a heinous act committed by the soldier on his common-law wife.

Bamboo Flowers(tl)

Tour guide Berta is having a tough time making ends meet. She’s forced to let her son Omel travel to the big city to take a job at an electronics store. Luis is studying to be a seaman, but can’t seem to pass his exams. His girlfriend Dolores is working as an intern at a resort, and dreams of going abroad as well. Sandra, following a painful event back in Manila, returns to her native Bohol, taking her spoiled son Eric with her.

Lihis(tl)

The film splits itself between two timelines. In 2006, Ada is basing her thesis on a massacre that occurred twenty years prior in a village called Acacia. Her mother Cecilia was part of a fact-finding mission into a massacre, and Ada’s inquiries bring up her history as a member of the NPA. The other timeline traces the relationship of Ka Felix and Ka Jimmy, two rebels who fall in love, despite the movement’s laws against such a pairing.

Ano ang Kulay ng mga Nakalimutang Pangarap?(tl)

Teresa (Rustica Carpio) has worked for the Bautista family since she was seventeen. She was the nanny of siblings Stella, Vince and Andre (Jackie Lou Blanco, Bobby Andrews and Ryan Agoncillo), and their mother. The three have all moved abroad in their adulthood, but all reunite back at home with the passing of their mother. With no one left to stay in the country, it is decided that all of their properties will be sold, including the house they grew up in. But they are faced with the problem of what to do with the elderly Teresa, who has no money saved, and little contact with her relatives.

Sonata(tl)

A woman whose whole life is her art, but when she loses it she goes into a self-exile, only to be, hopefully, reinvigorated by a young boy daring to bring it all back.

Iadya Mo Kami(tl)

Father Greg, a diocesan priest, is reassigned to a parish up in the mountains. He embarks on a mission to help solve the crime, a mission which leads him to the discovery of his own personal salvation.

Naked Weapon(cn)

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of assassinations begin to occur, Jack suspects that Madame M is back in business.

Wild and Free(tl)

Ellie and Jake fall in love, but struggle with their relationship when they discover an unexpected connection between their pasts.

Abandonada(tl)

After finishing prison sentence in Canada and came back to the Philippines, Gemma wants to recover her son after she was abandoned by her husband, Edwin. To do so, she worked as a nanny and was hired by Cindy, new wife of her husband. Being closer to her son in this household, she plans to escape with her son.

Imago(tl)

A fifty-four-year old single mother lives in Manila. Each night she leaves home to carry out an unusual job.

Isang Hakbang(en)

A story about Fred a kid janitor that substitutes for his mother who has kidney disease. Fred listens from outside the classroom of Ma’m Ami, hoping to give his mother a better life in the future.

Walang Take Two(en)

A frustrated, ambitious, self-centered and narcissistic filmmaker named Hapi has finally finished writing the screenplay of his first ever indie film which he believes is a masterpiece. Overeager, he enlists the help of his best friends, the comical Caloy and the voice of reason, Onyok, to make his dream movie. The only problem is, they have no budget to produce it.Residing in a poverty stricken community that is highly dependent on the Indian 5-6 cash loan system, which includes his own sister Rowena, Hapi, out of desperation, finally resorts to borrowing money from the community’s main Indian lender, Alfajor. However, things become worse for Hapi when his nemesis, the neighborhood midget thug named Oblax, steals his borrowed money. Deep in debt, burdened by his father, his dream movie project put on hold, and a seemingly bleak future with his current love interest, Cherry.

Maskara(tl)

The Philippines is being geared up to be interconnected through a system called One Wired Nation (OWN). This would allow faster and easier access to information across the country, from the smallest barangay to Malacañang. With OWN, progress is inevitable, says Bert Javelo from Prime Connections, the company who won the contract to build and manage OWN. Bert promises instant service and progress to the country. But Pia Gorospe is not convinced and smells something wrong.

Bayad Na Katawan(en)

Pinoy movie

Bagets 2(en)

Set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college.

Requited(tl)

An ailing biker takes to the rail for one last adventure that pits him against nature and the woman he desires.

The Face of Birth(en)

An inspiring look at how wonderful birth can be when your right to choose how, where and with whom you give birth is respected & protected. Every woman has the right to be informed about their options in childbirth. Through an exploration of home birth, this 87 min film looks at what natural, physiological childbirth really is. Is birth a medical emergency waiting to happen or a profound, natural and physiological event that women are designed for? The most comprehensive film ever made on home birth and a voice of reason in the debate, The Face of Birth outlines the importance of education in birthing and the right of a woman to choose the best and safest birth method for her and her baby.

Waiter(id)

The Best Man(en)

Malcolm is on the verge of marriage and he wants Duncan to be his Best Man, but what is Duncan hiding? In this tale of deception, three of Australia's up and coming talents explore the question: How well do we know our friends?

The Eyes of the Amaryllis(en)

In 1880, a little girl is sent to Nantucket Island to live with her grandmother. She discovers, however, that her grandmother is an odd woman who has some strange habits, one of which is keeping a vigil for a lover of many years ago who went out to sea one day and never returned.

Peeping Toms(he)

Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don't want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who's fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in altman's restaurant.

Fight club camp kusse(da)

The Engagement Dress(en)

When Michelle finally gets to wear the lucky bridesmaid’s dress that has led to all of her friends getting married, she realizes that she’s been looking for love in all the wrong places.

Vertigo(cs)

Psychological study of country girl Jitka and her blossoming love for an older man afraid of her youth and spontaneity.

Study No. 8(de)

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

Statsminister: Özz Nûjen(sv)

Nadia(fr)

Nadia Nadim, whose dad was killed by the Taliban in 2000, has embarked on this quest. The young Afghan woman, her 4 sisters, and their mother fled Kabul in the wake of the violence. Today, the Taliban have returned to rule. Football passion is what saved Nadia. She became a striker on the national team of her adoptive land, Denmark, then for the Paris-Saint-Germain women's team. Nadia, having achieved football stardom, wants to return to Afghanistan, to find out more about her father's fate. But the country is torn by terrorism as the Taliban and ISIS sow chaos daily. Giving up the trip, Nadia must grieve for another loss. However, she is unsinkable, and has plans for the future: graduate as a reconstructive surgeon and heal her people.

1857 (Fool's Gold)(en)

This film is an act of celebration ... He produces -- with light and colour, sound, stillness and movement -- the ineluctable rhythm and energy of the natural world.

Cold Homeland(de)

In this documentary Volker Koepp shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state.

The Only One(nl)

Lucien Knops (Nand Buyl) is a grumpy old man. When his wife passes away, he moves in with his daughter Gerda. It doesn't take long before tensions rise and Lucien moves back into his old house, claiming that his new lover will move in with him. Gerda is worried that she will miss out on her father's inheritance; even more so when an interesting new woman moves in next door to Lucien.

Cafe Tales(he)

Cafe Tales is the story of five Israeli men and their efforts to save a local cafe from demolition.

Denver and Rio Grande(en)

Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.

Kungen kommer(sv)

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.