Mowelfund Film Institute Movies

An experimental comedy short from the Philippines.

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

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

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

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

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

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

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...

1988 film

An impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis.

In between harvests, to supplement their income, Judith is sent by her father to catch birds which they would peddle come Sunday outside the church....

A young boy from the province goes to the city for the first time and learns about the urban life through the characters inside a jeepney.

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

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...

A bride walks on the desert. She takes off her bridal ornaments and turns into a harlot. A multitude of people crawl on their bellies, become sick...

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...

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

A man finds answers and more questions as he looks beyond the water's surface.

A collage film that finds its meaning from interspersing Lenten rites footage with random images using an optical printer.

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