Mowelfund Film Institute Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Experimental essay film.

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one.

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...

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

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...

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...

An impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis.

An experimental comedy short from the Philippines.

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

Short film by Rea Abalos.

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