Betty Benitez Manila Film Center

Trapped by her stepsister, Arianna Chloros was forced to serve a stranger with her eyes blindfolded and her hands tied. She gave birth to three babies, one of whom was said to not have survived. Seven years later, she appeared as a screenwriter for a film adaptation of her novel, under the pen name Voleta. "Voleta, are you truly Arianna, the pitiful woman on that one night?" "Yes, Mr. Arsen. You remember it! Because of your actions, there were three children born."

Adrian terpaksa bekerja sebagai aktor film dewasa karena sangat membutuhkan uang. Telah banyak rasa sakit dan kekosongan yang dijalaninya, hingga berpikir mencari cinta yang sejati. Akan tetapi, semua orang membicarakan dirinya, menghina dan selalu memberikan pandangan jijik. Dia berjuang sekuat tenaga, bertahan di arus kehidupan yang begitu kelam dan telah ia putuskan sendiri untuk menyelam ke dalamnya.

Marcos Jax Gomez lived his simple life in Davao. He was happy with his life as a young man. Not until his mother died because of Leukemia. He left Davao and went to Manila to look for a job because he wanted to be busy so that he can forget the pain caused by the death of his beloved mother. There, he met a woman named Euka Tamara Knewtleg. The woman that will make him fall. The woman that becomes his first, but this woman will also be the cause of his sufferings.     Will Marcos be able to handle being away from Euka? Is he willing to fight for his love for the woman?

All of us know that half of the truth is often a whole lie. That's what Saff life does.. Oreus promise that after he finishes his personal business to Manila, he will come back and Saff kept that promised to herself. Until then, the time flies fast and finally met each other. But after that, it seems their lives turns up and down, the promises that she kept on holding on was gone.. There is no way to escape. Will she keep relying unto that promise and continue loving him despite his disparment that made her life falls into pieces? Or just forget about it and living a life without him?

Tunnels deconstructs the individual’s Romantic fascination with ‘love’ or the grammaticality of beauty. Ideally, the ‘tunnels’ in the collection are subterranean love poems from the suburban imaginary. These seemingly syntactic tunnels travel through one’s literary imagination or heterotopic dreamscapes, and while αγάπη (Greek for ‘love’) inspires these rhizomic tunnels to navigate the abysmal ‘meta-spectacle’ of gesture, language or moment of poemness, the mind like the many-colored jeepneys of Manila, where driving past roast goose restaurants in Shek Kip Mei or spotting stilt houses in Kampong Kleang, attempt to explore the transgeneric textualities of the everyday, alongside the unstructurality of time and space, the littoral and the liminal.

Harry Pate fails in his plan to secure a fortune from my family. He tries to drug me, hand me over to his friends, and even film it to control me. Luckily, a kind netizen overhears him plotting with his mistress at a restaurant. The netizen posts a missing person alert online. "Please share widely. Looking for Freya White. Her boyfriend is trying to drug and assault her." I see the post and quietly pour the drug into the pot they are about to drink from.

Jenn Angeline menjadi korban penculikan. Aktris yang sedang naik daun itu digagahi seorang pria asing yang hobi menyewa wanita penghibur. Dari kejadian salah bawa tersebut, Ethan mulai menaruh perasaan berlebih. Sedangkan Jenn tidak menanggapi serius. Ia hanya suka menjalin hubungan dengan lelaki yang sudah punya pasangan. Karena baik dalam film dan dunia nyata, keahliannya sama. Merebut lelaki lain. 21+

Di dalam bioskop yang gelap gulita, aku menggenggam tangan istriku dan tiba-tiba muncul keinginan untuk melakukan sesuatu yang agak menantang. Saat meletakkan tangannya di bagian tubuhku agar dia bisa merasakannya, dia malah menahan tanganku dengan gemetar, Saat film berakhir dan lampu menyala, barulah aku melihat bahwa orang di sampingku itu bukan istriku, melainkan Marry, tetangga kami….

Bella Marlene, seorang aktris pendatang baru dengan paras cantik dan memiliki sifat pekerja keras. Namun, gadis itu memiliki kelemahan, yaitu enggan berdekatan dengan seorang pria. Kelemahan itu bukan tanpa suatu alasan. Bella seringkali mengalami mimpi-mimpi aneh dan terjadi berulang kali dalam tidurnya. Yaitu, ia seolah berada dalam film klasik Eropa abad pertengahan. Namun sesungguhnya, semua mimpi yang terjadi pada Bella bukanlah sekadar mimpi. Terdapat kepingan-kepingan puzzle di dalamnya.

During the mass terrorist attack in Manila, every legal-aged citizen is required to work for the government in order to reclaim the living land by battling as an option. The country where the terrorists originated is still in the unknown and under further investigation. Meanwhile, juveniles who were separated from their families had no choice but to live by themselves — whereas building a town, planting food crops, hunting animals and even manslaughter is even a necessity by means of survival. Keisha and his brother, Jaden, are left alone to be chased by vicious brutes hiding from the shadows. Until then they found hope wherein they can rule over and claim justice in the ongoing catastrophe. Is this going to be their chance to be the unsung heroes?