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Itan, a Sambal Ayta, was told by his parents that he won't be able to continue his studies. They tried to console him by saying that finishing Grade 6 is enough as he already knows how to read and write anyway. He was told that he should help his family in harvesting banana bells and clearing trees in the mountains since studying was only meant for the privileged. Itan's hopes and dreams were crushed until he got an old computer keyboard.

Mina, a pretty and intelligent 18-year-old student in a town, falls victim to a viral sex video that circulated in her school. This forced her mother Rita, an overseas Filipino worker in the Middle East, to go on an emergency leave to take care of her only daughter who was severely affected by the incident. In the following days, strange things start to happen to Mina at home and at school. Her nose bleeds endlessly, a python appears in their home, and she sees the spirits of her ancestors come to their house. A healer, an old woman from the next barrio, is called to treat Mina's strange afflictions. The old woman surmises that Mina's ancestors had come to tell her of an important message but Mina is stubborn and continues to ignore the signs communicated.

After saving a drowning child 13 feet under the sea, a man has to adapt to living with his developing scales and gills.

When they have no one to pass their "mutya" forward so they can finally die, aging "aswangs" in Antique are believed to seek for the mystical lake in Negros where they can just turn into ashes and disappear forever. This is the story of a 78 year old aswang and the young man who helped her find the lake.

During childhood, Lino often asked his mother as they wandered the path underneath the night sky. As he grew to his teenage years, they gradually lost their farm because of his father's debt. Like some, he will be forced to emigrate. The moon will be his way to talk to his mother, after several years in prison. When he goes back, he will return to the things and dreams that his disappearance has stolen-including his girlfriend.

Hernan, a lowly informal dweller, gets engaged in a trivial property dispute with his neighbor. He is criminally charged with attempted murder after a heated altercation. He brings out a bolo from the kitchen to confront his neighbor. At that time his wife is slaving herself in Dubai as an OFW, and he is left to give unconditional care to her two children from her first marriage.

In 1982, a fourteen-year-old movie fanatic from an underprivileged family in the Municipality of Manapla coincidentally witnesses the production shoot of Oro, Plata, Mata in his hometown. Full of determination he approaches the director, Peque Gallaga, in the hopes of landing a job that would help in providing for his family and feed his passion.

Set in a coastal town in the Philippines. Two lads, best friends since childhood reunite at the beach but as their bond gets stronger they are reminded of their fears to a mythical creature inherent in the place.

A tikbalang (horse demon) who transforms into a teenage boy tries to disprove the rumor that horse demons are killing civilians in the mountain.

Lorna is a mother of two who just lost her fisherman husband one morning in a tragic sea accident. She was left with no choice but to raise her own family. In a town where women are regarded as inferior, she defies the odds by being the first woman "mangingisda" (fisherfolk) in order to feed her kids. Will she be able to rule out the ways of the sea? How long until the community accepts her defiance?

A fisherman living along the Bicol River searches for his missing wife. His faith in God is tested when he finally finds her.