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PINOY INDIE FILM FEST 2023

In-Theatre Films

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Love is Love

Childhood friends Anton de Monteverde (JC DeVera) and Wacko Guerrero (Neil Coleta) vow to stay friends forever, even if fate splits them. After more than 15 years of separation, is excited to be reunited with his childhood best friend. Anton realizes that Winona is the woman destined to end his “auto-pilot“ kind of life, boring nightlife gimmicks, and insignificant affairs. Winona is destined to become his greatest love.

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Pedro Calungsod

Pedro Calungsod, a young Filipino man, leaves his Visayan native roots to join the Spanish Jesuit priest Fr. Diego de San Vitores in his mission to the Marianas Islands (Guam) in 1668. The San Diego Mission arrives in the Marianas where the young Pedro, a trained catechist and mission assistant, begins work for Fr. Diego de San Vitores in baptizing the Chamorro natives, preaching the holy gospel and spreading the good news of salvation through the Christian faith amidst paganism, doubt and disbelief.

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Tanabata’s Wife

Based on the classic Philippine short story “Tanabata’s Wife“, set in the 1920’s. Tanabata-San is a successful Japanese immigrant farmer in Benguet, known to pioneer the planting of salad greens. Middle-aged and lonely, he hires a young feisty Bontoc woman, Fasang, as farmhand, and falls in love with her.



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Aria

Aria is a drama set during several decades when the Hukbalahap was formed out of the efforts of the labor movement, which had to evolve because of the invasion of the Japanese. war veteran’s fight to restore her suspended pension takes her back to her fight for her country. THIS IS A love story set against the backdrop of the Huk guerrilla movement during World War II.

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Oras de Peligro

As unrest unfolds, a family who lives in the slums grapple with the murder of their patriarch in the hands of corrupt policemen, turning from passive victims of social injustice into active participants in the final hours of the uprising.




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