Joel Saracho

A TV writer returns home to her estranged mother, igniting chaos as they navigate painful secrets and the complexities of their dysfunctional family.

An evil spirit that changes faces infiltrates one family placing one brother in danger while the other tries to save him.

A rich couple often spices up their sexual relationship by doing their so-called Sex Games. But when they meet a new set of "playmates"- a conservative couple, their game becomes more challenging.

A gifted 10-year-old boy who can see mythical creatures must warn a skeptical village of the impending catastrophe.

A special forces team is sent to snuff out a drug den, but find themselves trapped inside it after being set-up and betrayed.

Surrounded by a string of deaths, an older woman relives her romance with a mysterious, ageless lover as an inspector closes in on their dark secret.

Three chilling tales based on real stories expose the haunting depths of faith, fear, and the unknown — from a seafarer trapped on a cursed voyage, to an island plagued by a flesh-eating legend, and a young woman's battle against a legion of demons that pushes the limits of faith and sanity.

When Luna, a battered wife, and Bela, an empowered artist, meet for the first time, their hearts will be freed by the people and society that chain them.

A powerful and moving historical drama that tells the courageous story of three Filipino Catholic priests: Mariano Gomez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora.

Two people with Down syndrome navigate love, acceptance, and self-discovery in a world that often sees their condition before seeing them.

Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. This eight-hour epic examines this myth, undertaking an expedition into history through various interwoven narrative threads, held together by an exploration of the individual’s role in history.

Set in 1944, Victoria, who escapes captivity as a comfort woman, finds refuge, and love, with the man Selina left in the first movie.

A story of ordinary, happy people living in a tenement is suddenly shaken by a string of conspicuous deaths. Unfortunate and unrelated deaths continue, and they think a killer is living among them.

Actress Eugene Domingo plays a fictionalized version of herself as an actress who really wants to be a director. Unfortunately, she encounters the most enormous stumbling block of all: her ego.

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned. Ferdinand Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081, putting the entire country under martial law.

An Aeta from Baytan village in Zambales makes a living from cutting down and burning of trees and hunting on the foothills of Mt. Pinatubo.

A land-grabbing tycoon and a former sexy male actor are in a tight race for mayor in a small town. When violence erupts, Emmy, a teacher, runs into the wilderness with a ballot box, the last copy of the election result.

Pol moves to Manila for better opportunities after his American lover leaves. However, he gets drawn into the gritty world of gay prostitution and sexual slavery.

Josh, a devout loan executive who believes his faith and adherence to the Ten Commandments have brought him a good life. However, when a series of misfortunes strike. Josh begins to feel abandoned by his faith. In his frustration, he decides to rebel by breaking each commandment.

An isolating old man, haunted by the loss of his grandchild and unpaid bills, meets a child on an unlikely journey of warmth and rediscovery, all sparked by a power outage.

Felix is a friendless achiever in high school whose life changes after the arrival of the half-American Snyder brothers, entangling him in their dark ambitions.

An ordinary worker witnesses the extrajudicial killing of a teenage boy by police officers. Inspired by real-life events during the Philippine anti-drug campaign, the film tracks the lone witness who risks his safety in an attempt to make the truth known.

A collection of interwoven stories about life and violence in the Philippines, following a college professor, a university chancellor, a social worker, a police chief, two students, two mothers, and a lawyer.

In late 1970s Philippines, a military-controlled militia oppresses a remote village, spreading terror both physical and psychological. Fearless young doctor Lorena opens a clinic for the poor but disappears without a trace. Her activist poet husband sets out to find her.

A young boy frequently visits an old man who lives alone, keeping him always in good company. One night, he chances upon the old man watching a dated clip of himself as a cross-dressing boy. This sparks within the young boy an interest to find out more about the old man's past. What he ultimately discovers aids both him and the old man towards a richer understanding of how the weight of life and identity should be carried.

A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.

Amid drought and famine in Cupang, young Elsa claims to have seen the Virgin Mary and subsequently been blessed with the ability to heal the sick. As people flock to witness her powers, the village becomes consumed by faith, prosperity, greed, and deceit. Is Elsa truly a symbol of hope in a world desperate for salvation?

On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage.

On the eve of an imminent apocalypse, daughter helps her father prepare for a religious event of their sect. But as the hours tick, sinister events unravel that endanger her own safety.

As mysterious visitors invade a mother’s daily rituals, her son witnesses the gradual collapse of her carefully ordered world and struggles to understand the forces shaping her behavior.

Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.

A woman is desperate to find the cure to her daughter's illness. She takes a job at a call center, only to be haunted by the ghost in it.

A woman falls in love with a man, but is wronged by him and his brother. She then tries to exact revenge on him, his brother and his new lover.

A professional horror movie extra prepares for her first ever acting award nomination.

In Frankfurt, Lailani, now 65, awaits a plane to Manila. She's returning home to the Philippines for the first time in 30 years. En route, she delays her return by stopping over in Singapore. Her interactions with her fellow Filipinos help her reflect on the nature of her loss, the cycle of sacrifice and longing that marks them all. Gripped by the fear of returning home to a life she has left behind but is still intricately connected to, she finds moments of enchantment among other lost souls. They've created their ways of living with disenchantment through a Dreamtime that shelters them from the storms of trauma.

The Valentine offering starts with a loveless bespectacled author pondering over possible themes for his trilogy of love stories. He gets a ribbing from his precocious little sister for wasting too much time writing on the computer.

Lisang’s soul is trapped in purgatory due to her bad behavior. Once again, her name is picked and reconsidered. Will she be able to make it this time?

Born with both male and female genitals, but raised like a boy by his conservative family, Adam goes through all the things prepubescent boys go through, including a fascination with strange animals he takes for pets and being smitten by a lovely girl. His bucolic world turns upside down when he gets his first menstrual period setting him off on a journey that tests the spiritual and physical limits of sexual identity and into a new world of ambiguity and desire.

Jaz, a woman who goes on a road trip with her best friend to heal her broken heart.

A nightmare of a basketball team during their stay at an old dormitory.

Drunken customers of a small bar end up fighting over a song in the karaoke machine.

In the traffic-laden streets of Metro Manila, two brothers use the chaos of the city roads as a smokescreen for their shady occupation tandem robbers on motorbike. But when a robbery goes sour, the brothers are forced to graduate from low level thieves to high profile hit men in an act that tests both their resolve and their relationship.

The film follows Gina, who must find an exorcist after her younger sister gets possessed by a dead woman’s spirit.

The true story of a young mother who uses story-telling to protect her child from the reality of growing up in prison and the difficult life she endured.

A young woman takes a job as a personal maid for a rich young man. The pair do not get along, but soon due to their classmates' games of love, their relationship grows more complicated than before.

Living alone as a caretaker to her ailing but overbearing dad, a demure and loving daughter unravels the secrets of her estranged mom as her dad’s grip on her life tightens.

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An ex-military sniper who was honorably discharged accepts a mission that will indefinitely change her life in the attempts to make ends meet. It is a quiet character study of when your life’s purpose is stripped away, but you still pursue it, only to realise that it could kill you.

Delving into figures like the pseudohistorical Kalantiaw and President Bongbong Marcos, this documentary is a deep exploration of the post-truth era.

It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences.

A story of a family's breakdown in the midst of a demonic attack. Dennis, a reporter, accidentally invites the ilawod which is a water spirit into his home where it attaches to his son, Ben.

In modern-day Metro Manila, a diverse group of Filipinos faces life's lows as their destinies collide on a fateful train ride, unfolding a heartwarming and comedic tapestry of interconnected stories.

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

Daisy Resurrection, an overseas Filipino worker, comes home from years of working broad, but her homecoming is unlike any other OFW story you’ve heard of.

A gay student leader finds himself in the collective voices of an ensemble to avenge and reclaim the voice once taken from him.

In a world where men hide their true love and feelings, where a mother turns a blind eye to her son's identity, and where religion dictates that a man may only lie with a woman — is everything we see truly what it seems to be? The latest release from New Queer Visions takes a look at representations of boys and men, how desires are hidden from those around them, and how self-belief conquers doubt. The short films are: Adult (2017); Hello, Stranger [Dag vreemde man] (2016); Little Potato (2017); Juan Gabriel is Dead [Se murió Juan Gabriel] (2018); The Guest [Le convive] (2017); Contestant #4 (2016).

Arvin and Ace, haunted by past traumas and dreams shattered by the pandemic, collide as they chase online fame, forcing them to confront buried secrets and redefine their identities.

Pipo makes ends meet by taking on the toughest jobs. Life is more difficult because he’s deaf. He supports himself and his teenage lover Cyril. His irate boss is getting difficult and Ben, his childhood friend wants his daughter Cyril back. Like a bomb, Pipo’s ticking to explode, anytime soon.

Crisanto Espina, a cop on suspension and under investigation, is tasked to eliminate the suspects involved in a bank robbery/massacre that shocked the whole nation.

A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in the deeps of the forest, where more mystery and danger lay in wait.

In dreary Porac Pampanga, a young man, Daniel, abandons his motherland after winning the biggest cash prize in the history of Philippine lottery. Five years later, he is searching for home and redemption through the people that make up his past. With each visit, his story unfolds like the last digit of a winning combination.

Diego Loyzaga and Joel Torre go head to head in this action-packed movie about a former hit man trying to live a normal life when someone from his past sees him and puts his family and friends in danger. Can he sacrifice his new life to fight for the ones he loves?

A story of how a violent crime disrupts a quaint rural town in Batangas. A girl’s dead body is discovered and puts the whole town on trial while the former’s companion remains missing. The ensuing media spectacle slowly exposes the town’s secrets. As they celebrate its yearly festival by the lake, an unknowing sleeping evil unravels and haunts the townsfolk.

"Paquil" tells the story of Christina, a once-celebrated actress who, after experiencing several career flops and being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, returns to her hometown of Pakil. This town holds deep childhood memories for her and is known for the long-lost tradition of Komedya, a local theatrical performance. Now at a crossroads in her life, Christina becomes determined to revive this cultural art form as she grapples with her fading health and inner struggles.

Intoy was left to take care of his parents when his sister Vicky leaves to work overseas. Eventually, like many women in the island, Vicky married a foreigner thinking it will solve all her family’s problems. Living in a remote area, Intoy can only get in touch with his sister by scrambling atop strange rock formations on the island.

When a retired professor and a widowed engineer in his '40s bond after a chance meeting, their conversations on life and love turn into something more.

Tomas, the old venerable mayor of the remote town of Kawalan, learns that the invading Japanese will set up a garrison there. He organizes willing members in his community to set up a hidden settlement in the middle of the forest, where they can live unaffected by the horrors of war. As a young revolutionary during the 1896 fight against Spain and then as a soldier fighting against the Americans, Tomas had witnessed the effects of violence on people and become a pacifist. Now, he must see if inhabitants of the hidden settlement can escape the sufferings wrought by the war.

A social science fiction set in a farming village in the not-so-distant future. Victor lives in a time when the dominant form of education is through installation, a process wherein bodies of knowledge can be installed directly into people's brains using technology owned by big corporations. However, like many others in the agricultural town of Porac, Victor cannot afford the sky-high cost of installation; which he believes is the key to escape his rural life. To raise money for installation, Victor abandons farming and works as the housekeep of a wealthy childhood friend who has become extremely successful after undergoing a series of installations.

A young soldier comes home after a siege and faces a different war.

Lola Igna is a foul-mouthed and stubborn woman who is eager to die but her neighbors are hung up on her winning "the oldest living grandmother in the world." Her long-lost great-great-grandson, Tim, is an aspiring vlogger who wants to latch on her now-famous grandma but ends up giving her a new reason to live.

A Moro child soldier aspires to become a baseball player amidst an all-out war.

Elle, a young model new to the industry, arrives to the set of her first commercial job to discover that the initial idea was scrapped. A mysterious new concept has been developed, but the crew and director keep forgetting to let her know what it is. However, after an afternoon of tight costume fittings, rough prop work, and meetings with creepy producers, Elle begins to suspect something else might be afoot.

Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination and mysticism. One day, he is finally given the chance to open for the rock legend’s concert but he must do something neither of them has done before – write a love song.

Three illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the sea, the mountains and the forest until they reached their destination. Or did they really reach their cursed place?

The film is based on the progressive and nationalist youth organization “Kabataang Makabayan” (KM), founded in 1964. Kabataang Makabayan was led and co-founded by Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, four years before they also reestablished the Communist Party of the Philippines

The story of a day in the lives of two men in the city -both proud, indifferent, and bound by the confines of their milieu and their choices in life- and their incidental yet preordained meeting in a one-way alley that would change their lives thereafter. Raising questions of how far people have control over what happens in their lives, the film seeks to explore circumstance versus choice, breaking points, and second chances.

When the people of Maratabat finally realize that their time under the corrupt politician clan of the Abubakars has to come to an end— a series of violent acts occur one after another. The people rally behind another clan –the Mahardikas – to end the violence and place a new leader in their region. Will the Mahardikas choose a path of violence or peace? Will it be for honor or will it be for pride?

The documentary about the history and struggle for Press Freedom of Mosquito Press during the dark days of Marcos dictatorship.