Mowelfund Film Institute Movies

A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time.

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and...

A man crawls on the street of Manila at the height of EDSA Revolution.

In facing apartment units, two men share parallel stories. One, distraught over the death of John Lennon, contemplates on killing himself. The other...

This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of...

A restless lizard and a man move faster and faster to a punk beat.

Experimental essay film.

An expressionistic story of a soldier’s lament as he lies on his hospital bed 50 years after the Second World War.

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

A family witnesses the transformation of their garbage into a monster.

An optically printed abstract film taken from the outtakes of an action flick mixed with noise, news broadcasts and hardcore music resulting into a...

1988 film

An impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis.

Out of luck Boyong, a father of a sick child, tries to look for money.

An experimental comedy short from the Philippines.

Suring casts a spell of immense beauty, but is persecuted by humanity. She retreats to the forests, far from the prying eyes of humans. There, she...

Rumored to have used footage salvaged from a commercial studio dumpster, the film is a commentary on Filipino onscreen macho culture and one of the...

Two domestic helpers consigned by fate to a very awkward situation. Both are trapped in a common pitfall, but each has her own way of crawling out of...

Repetitive camera movements combined with protest songs to produce a strident political statement.

A humorous but serious film about the "GARBAGE" in our country.