Here’s your complete guide to Cinemalaya 2025

Three land activists contend with their volatile notions of home amid terror and red-tagging in Cagayan Valley.

At a wake, a persevering high school student must prove that he is the 82nd child of the country’s biggest action-fantasy movie star in hopes of seeing his father one last time.

Four Filipinos confront the slow erasure of memory and truth in a country devoured by misinformation.

Recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, a young filmmaker begins shooting at a site where thousands of men, women, and children were slaughtered. But the angry spirits are awakened and the lives of her team and the local villagers are put at risk.

Four queer women in their 30s who are exes-turned-best-friends navigate adulthood, love, friendship, chosen families, and everything in between.

Five days before the proclamation of Martial Law, the Colgante Bridge collapses in Naga, forcing a father into a desperate search for his missing son.

Years after experiencing sexual harassment at her workplace, a former executive assistant is persuaded by a passionate lawyer to file a case against her rich and highly respected boss.

A young man’s quest for truth and justice intertwines with a plane crash mystery, uncovering a sinister plot that propels his desire to be heard but also threatens his community.

When the local government threatens to evict her from her own land, a farmer renounces her Filipino citizenship and builds her own micronation.

Kitkat, a 19-year-old transgender woman, finds the family she’s been longing for in a gang of sisters who kidnap foreign men to fund their gender-affirming surgeries, until their crimes force her to question the true cost of belonging.

Thelma, an exploited call center agent, grows increasingly enamored by the late night host of the local lottery draw.

While the world is lost in screens, a young Kalinga girl – untouched by the pull of technology – brings a handmade instrument to class, carrying the voice of her ancestors and inspiring a quiet yet powerful return to cultural pride.

One summer, a young boy witnesses his grandmother slowly transforming into a tilapia.

A young girl turns into a fish and recounts the territorial aggression being experienced by the fisherfolk in her hometown Zambales.

In his desperation to send money to his girlfriend, a debt-stricken seafarer takes his superior’s help, only to sense an unknown presence tightening its hold on him.

Across a white void, old pages come to life and speak. A cacophony of archival voices of rebellious youth in a private all-boys Catholic high school during a moment of political turmoil breaks through, seeking liberation as lines break out of formation and colored ink spills out of the pages.

A young rookie from a bizarre chicken-dance group faces a heckler after being the worst dancer at a performance — leading him to a series of strange events that reveal what the group does to their weakest link.

After a sexual assault, a young woman navigates a cold and bureaucratic system over the course of 24 hours, fighting to reclaim her safety and sanity while battling the manipulations of her assailant.

Two sad boys harness the power of their love in an attempt to survive a world devastated by climate change.

Alec Dominguez, a 20 something year old multi talented, multi-awarded-golden-boy- adopted by the–owners–of–gay-philantrophists has a reunion with his old buddies from his original home, The Dominguez Orphanage.