Filmmaker Gutierrez "Teng" Mangansakan II was born in Cotabato and raised in Maguindanao to a political family. His grandfather was Datu Udtug Matalam, founder of the Mindanao Independence Movement, which was formed in response to the Jabidah massacre in 1968. - CNN Philippines
Total trailers found: 17
29 June 2012
One morning, residents of a rural village are horrified when the sun rises in the West. According to Islamic belief, this phenomenon signals the Apocalypse.
17 June 2022
Set on the eve of a fictional inaugural of the Bangsamoro Government, the film revolves around Daud, a scion of a political dynasty who is reluctant to become a member of the Parliament, and his college buddy Marco, a struggling journalist assigned to cover the inaugural.
04 September 2024
A 19th century woman named Salome, whose identity has been shrouded in myth and legend, becomes the center of a cult that has polarized a community.
29 October 2020
Filmmaker’s intimate statement from isolation, in which he reads letters from a mother longing for her son, whom she has not seen for four years.
06 December 2012
A portrait of a village in the southern Philippines which combines documentary footage with staged scenes.
12 November 2011
Rashid Ali returns to his Maguindanao hometown after studying and working for more than 25 years in Barcelona, Spain.
18 November 2016
Forbidden Memory summons remembrances and memories of the fateful days in September 1974 when about 1,500 men from Malisbong and neighboring villages in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat were killed while 3,000 women and children were forcibly taken to naval boats stationed nearby where they encountered unspeakable horror.
01 January 2001
A documentary on the filmmaker’s reflection on the Bangsamoro conflict using his grandfather’s house as a metaphor for his people’s longing for peace in their homeland.
03 August 2024
The discovery of a mysterious alien shell in a trench transforms the lives of two star-crossed lovers, Paleng and Eliong, and their threatened coastal village in Davao City, unearthing secrets deeper than the surrounding perilous waters.
03 July 2014
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned.
15 February 2025
Three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, meet in the villa that one of the sisters has inherited.
10 July 2010
The film captures the ritual motions of the women in a family preparing for the wedding of seventeen-year-old Ayesah who is betrothed to a man she barely knows.
13 November 2017
While Mount Banahaw is the place where fertile streams of spirituality, mysticism, the occult, and the environment combine to provide a potent ground for the transmission and exchange of secret and sacred knowledge, it can be said to be a bazaar peddling bizarre mysteries.
29 October 2018
The film follows Sab, a transporter for local drug cartels. Amidst an imminent war between her superiors, Sab also deals with her dying grandmother's last wish that she bear a child.
21 October 2018
A princess seeks refuge in a Convent to escape an arranged marriage. A young prince tries to make sense of his station.
10 July 2016
A family is in ruins after the last male member dies. To salvage their future, the matriarch Kadiguia decides to look for a suitable husband for the eligible Tonina to continue the line of martyrs and warriors.
26 March 2021
In Age of Blight, 12 Asian filmmakers capture and imagine life under the pandemic, from the hospital corridors of Marawi to protest rallies in the streets of Bangkok.
