Mowelfund Film Institute Movies

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

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

An experimental comedy short from the Philippines.

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...

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

Experimental essay film.

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

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...

1988 film