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American Adobo
The film centers on the lives of five Filipino-Americans over the course of an eventful year. American Adobo is truly a film that will appeal not only to Filipinos but to other cultural groups as well -- those who try to preserve their customs but at the same time adapt to their new homeland. Set in the Big Apple, it deals with the daily struggles of Americanized Pinoys who try to assimilate western culture into their Filipino heritage.

Anak
This is the story of a mother's agony and her desperate attempts to piece back the fragments of a shattered family when she returns to Manila after working for ten years as a domestic helper in Hong Kong. Despite Josie's (Vilma Santos) best efforts, the problems become worse and worse. Finally, admits defeat and accepts having failed in her role as a mother. What is the right thing to do? Should she stay or should she go away again to work outside the country?

Bagong Buwan
Ahmad (Cesar Montano) is a Muslim doctor who lives in Manila. His wife Fatima (Amy Austria) and only son Ibrahim live in Mindanao with Ahmad's mother Farida. He is devastated when told that his son has been killed by a stray bullet fired by vigilantes. Returning to Mindanao, he finds himself opposing his family's wish to stay in their war-torn homeland --insisting that the best solution is for his family to move to Manila. His brother Musa disagrees and believes that the only solution is to wage war against "unbelievers." The family is caught at the center of a blood conflict between Muslims and Christians.

Bata, Bata... Paano Ka Ginawa?
Based on the Palanca award-winning novel of Lualhati Bautista, this film tells the story of Lea Bustamante -- a woman who chooses to live based on her own principles and not upon the dictates of society as well as a mother of two from different fathers who face the reality of losing her children to both fathers.

Batad (DVD)
Ag-ap (Alchris Galura) is a teenage Ifugao boy who thinks owning a pair of trekking shoes can win him the admiration of Lab-an, a local girl. To raise money for his shoes, he tries all kinds of odd jobs. He eventually becomes a tourist guide that exposes him to the westernized world outside their remote village. This is a story about tradition vs. modernization in the life of indigenous people.

Bayaning Third World
Two filmmakers are obsessed with doing a film about Jose Riza, the Filipino national hero. Their effort to explain the mysteries in the hero's life lead them to confront the past and its characters. This oddysey towards the illusive truth shows us their face to face encounters with Dona Lolay, Rizal's mother, Paciano, the brother, Josephine Bracken, the controversial "dulce extranjera," Narcisa, the understanding elder sister, Trining the other sister who holds the key to the refraction controversy and Padre Balaguet, the Jesuit who writes about Rizal's final hours and ending with the hero himself.

Dekada '70
Tthis is a story of a family caught in the midst of a tumultuous time in Philippine history -- the martial law years. Amanda (Vilma Santos) and Julian (Christopher de Leon) is a picture of a middle class couple with conservative ideologies who must deal with raising their children, five boys, in an era marked by passion, fear, unrest and social chaos.

Filipinas
Filipinas tells the story of a family separated by rifts and conflicts. Florencia Filipinas, the matriarch, summons her children in an effort to unite the family once more. The plan backfired, unfortunately, for her children still hold resentments against each other. Past hurt and grievances then surface, a tense atmosphere of conflict hangs in the household. Things get worse when the matriarch's health fails and she slips into coma. Now, for the first time, the siblings become one in praying...

Gatas Sa Dibdib ng Kaaway
War brings about a different kind of conflict as three lives intersect and collide in Pilar (Mylene Dizon), a woman with great capacity for love, her husband Diego (Jomari Yllana), whose love for country outweighs his hatred for the enemy, and Capt. Hiroshi (Kenji Motoki), the Japanese officer. The wartime drama has Pilar torn between her loyalties to Diego and Capt. Hiroshi whose kindness leaves Pilar little choice when in exchange for her husband's freedom, she agrees to become a wet nurse for Hiroshi's newborn son. Diego has resentment with this bizarre arrangement...

I. D.
Rodel dela Cruz (Ricky Davao) is a principled man but a troubled husband. He has his share of problems with his wife Stella (Glyndel Mercado). He believes that working abroad is the answer to their sinking relationship. While fixing his papers, he is apprehended by policemen for being the primary suspect in the killing of a pawnshop owner. After sometime, the police release him due to a mistaken identity. He claims that his reputation has been put to question so he plots revenge.

Jologs
Jologs is about a non-linear narrative that plays with the concept of time and allows the audience to glean how life can be seen in different ways, depending on which point of view one takes. Picked out from 219 entries, this is the first prize winner of the 1st Annual Star Cinema Scriptwriting Contest. This film is a hilarious contemporary comedy made up of six interconnected stories about the young who try to overcome bigotry, irony and adversity that hound their existence.

Magkapatid
Cita (Sharon Cuneta) and Lisa (Judy Ann Santos) are not just sisters but the best of friends. The harmonious relationship is not only between the two siblings but also between their families, especially their children. So when tragedy hits the family, the ideal relationship turns into an ordeal not just for the sisters but for the people around them.

Magnifico
This is the story of a young boy whose amazing love, faith and courage shine through life's sadness and misfortunes. His father, Gerry, thought he would grow up just like his older brother Miong, an intelligent young man who is a scholar in Manila. now that he's 9 years old, he is a disappointment because contrary to his name, there is nothing great aside from the kindness of his heart...

Mga Munting Tinig
Dreams are what Melinda brought with her the day she left for the far flung provincial town of Malawig. The young teacher arrives to find a land of coconut and rice fields, and a people of barren hope. Poverty has made the townsfolk passive, resigned to a bitter fate, while other fight in the mountains, staking their lives for some kind of change. Against the skepticism of the town, Melinda and the children of Malawig join a humble singing contest. Their small voices ring out against the darkness, aginst poverty, death and despair.

Mila
She is an extraordinary teacher -- concerned, insightful and a good listener. However, she had an abusive husband and a drug addict lover. After joining a teacher's strike which lingered unresolved, she found herself in Ermita in the company of people who were reckoned to be dregs of society. They became her new family, her new reason for living. She had her own makeshift classroom for the street children and all thos who hungered for learning.

Minsa'y Isang Gamu-gamo
A lady nurse whose family resides near a U.S. military base harbors the American dream. She wants to work and live in the land of milk and honey. Now that her departure papers are ready, she plans to avail of a green card and after a one-year stint in a hospital, change her status to immigrant and petition for her family. With her ambition, she ignores the gross injustices and abuses brought about by the American military bases until on the eve of her departure, her brother was shot and killed by an American soldier. And the tides turned opposite...

Mumbaki
Joseph is a young doctor who returned to his hometown in the Mountain Province to bury his father, an Ifugao chieftain, who was killed during a tribal dispute. While there, he discovers his rich heritage and acquires pride in his being Ifugao. Though the lure of a career in Amercia remains strong, he is unable to resist the urge to help his barrio which has resisted modern medicine and is now in the midst of a pneumonia epidemic and local unrest.

Muro-Ami
A critically acclaimed portrayal of the lives of child laborer who fish to survive. Fredo (Cesar Montano) finances fishing expedition to meet his goal of bringing home 300 drums of fish before Christmas. For this, he has commissioned 200 children to carry out the muro-ami method of fishing which is pounding and sometimes crushing corals to scare fish and drive them into the nets. Fredo's greed drives him to increase his quota to 500 drums despite his father's forewarning that he should not abuse the sea. Because of his stubborness, he had to experience the wrath of the sea...

Nag-iisang Bituin
Miggy (Aga Muhlach) is not an ordinary boy. He grows up as a learning, mentally challenged person. He becomes the center of his brother's (|Christopher de Leon) life. A psychiatrist gives her time and attention to help Miggy. Together, they face the odds and joys of bringing up Miggy in his different world.

Noon at Ngayon
This is a story of four unconventional women who continue to share a beautiful story of friendship throughout the years...along with that of a new generation that redefines conventions anew. After nearly a decade of living in the U.S., Joey is back and the four friends find themselves "complete" again. As they try to reconcile the past with present to cope with the changing times, their own children come to terms with themselves, with the people they love and with life itself.

Pangako ng Kahapon (DVD)
This is the story of three sisters, the daughters of a powerful man by three different women. All of them are beautiful, ambitious and fiercely independent. Mildred is a powerful land-grabbing hacendera. Elizabeth is a lawyer who gave up her principles to further her career. The third is Belinda, a rebel who will fight at any cost for ther rights. Set in the picturesque abaca plantations of Bicol with the perfect Mayon Volcano in the background, this is also a film about a greedy family, corrupt politicians and the hapless tenants whose lives crossed their paths.

Rizal Sa Dapitan (DVD)
In the bucolic surroundings of Dapitan, Jose Rizal led a quiet life serving the people of the city. Assuming the role of a doctor, teacher and engineer, he steered the inactive country into action. From award-winning director Tikoy Aguiluz, together with Albert Martinez and Amanda Page, comes an honest and intelligent film interpretation of the National Heroe's exile in Dapitan

Tanging Ina (DVD)
Three dead husbands and twelve children to take care of... What is a modern-day working mother to do? Ina (Ai-ai delas Alas is completely clueless on how to be an income provider and a homemaker at the same time given the dwindling finances of her household. As she desperately hides from her children her all-out effort to make both ends meet, her children grow resentful of her as she unknowingly becomes part of their own problems. She tries to give the very best for them but is seems that her best is not enough ...

Tanging Yaman
Three siblings are now well settled with their respective families, with contrasting lifestyles. The common thing that binds them together is the love that their mother holds for all of them. Long suppressed pains and resentments unravel as the three siblings argue over the prospect of selling a vast tract of land. What stuff each one is made of faces its true test when the family matriarch succumbs to a debilitating disease. Do her beloved children break up or unite?

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