In “Stuck on You,” first-time filmmaker Mikko Baldoza turns a simple romantic comedy into something stranger… a sharp, offbeat love story about a manicurist, a murder plot, and the impossible ways we fall for each other.
In “Patay Gutom” (Dead Hungry), rotoscope animation meets queer love story, as veteran storyteller Carl Joseph Papa and first-time co-director Ian Pangilinan craft a surreal tale about hunger, vision, and the strange, tender ways we find acceptance.
With his film Mono no Aware, the Pampanga-born filmmaker turns silence, loss, and fleeting human connection into poetry… a meditation on what it means to be present before things fade.
