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In 1901 Balangiga, eight-year-old Kulas flees with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill and Burn order. he finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses, and together the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.

Inspired by Jose Rizal's third, unfinished novel, discovered in 1987. A Spanish priest (Khavn) and a Filipino poet (John Lloyd Cruz) vie for the affections of an American woman (Lilith Strangenberg) who is going mad. Shot on expired film stock, which was then hand painted and scratched by the director, Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge is made to feel like an unearthed relic; some newly discovered silent film from an experimental filmmaker from a century past.

'Four men with nowhere to go and everything to lose are about to have the worst night of their lives. A film about the end of the world. And the demon in all of us'

When a bank heist goes wrong, the boss of a merciless children's gang is sentenced to jail. After he reunites with the surviving gang members 20 years later, they soon start to disappear one by one.

Even after burial Orphea wants to embrace her beloved Eurydike. She passionately descends into the apocalyptic underworld in a quest of nine extraordinary songs, but maybe the wandering Eurydike no longer needs any love?

What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can't go to the police for help or information. Many families were affected in this way by the cruelty of the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986). The film shows one of them as an example of paradise lost.