Cha Escala Movies

A filmmaker explores why women are at the forefront of documentary filmmaking in the Philippines by chronicling their narratives of struggle and...

When the local government threatens to evict her from her own land, a farmer renounces her Filipino citizenship and builds her own micronation.

Bullet-laced Dreams follows the Lumad children in Mindanao as they escape from military rule due to the incessant armed conflicts between the...

The film documents a filmmaker’s experience with his father’s death due to Alzheimer’s disease. Taken from a personal perspective,...

Pepe Luneta, a founding member of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has not seen his son, Bambam, for more than 20 years. Since fleeing the...