Mowelfund Film Institute Movies

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

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

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 th...

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 Raym...

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 r...

Experimental essay film.

An experimental comedy short from the Philippines.

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

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

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 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 and...

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

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

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

1988 film

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

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 bef...

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

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