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Amidst joblessness and a film grant at their disposal, two filmmakers buy an oven to have an alternate source of income during the global pandemic. Through a video diary format, the film tries to explore the oppressive limitations of home and the filmmakers' looming thoughts of migration from these oven-like spaces.
A young girl's reality is intruded when her father who's been away abroad for almost a decade suddenly comes home as an animated doodle figure.
After losing both parents, two brothers search the skies for solace and clarity. Could the answer be really out of this world?
After getting disposed of, a facemask starts to turn into a humanoid figure while looking for its previous owner. It then wanders around different places in Manila and starts an adventure.
Tumatawa, Umiiyak is an animated short about a man's recollections of a bygone afternoon involving him and his grandfather as they traverse their old neighborhood into other parts of the city in order to pick flowers for school. Along the way, they play games with each other to pass time and bear the afternoon heat. From the narrow streets of the baranggay, they arrive at the nearby business district where high-rise buildings stood and the seemingly out-of-place cemetery lies. It is a cemetery for the rich – with vast greenery and a peaceful atmosphere in contrast to the bustle of the streets outside. The film is a meditation on the first blossoming of class consciousness on a young mind and the pivotal effects these memories have on shaping who we are now.
Teenager Henry begins longing for another life when he visits a mansion's construction site to seek compensation for his older brother's work injury.
Luzonensis is a prehistoric hominid who is about to leave overseas to be a migrant worker. Hours before departing, he discovers that his passport is missing. Together with his father, they retrace their path to find it. Luzonensis ponders on who he is and his place in this country as their backs ache along the way.
A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.
Kara thinks she's out of luck. She's a fresh graduate who doesn't want to venture into her nursing career, she's got a nagging mother, and she has an annoying set of "successful" friends to be envied with. Most importantly, she's being haunted by a ghost.