Movies: Mowelfund Film Institute

This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary....

A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time....

With interviews with National Artists Lamberto Avellana and Lino Brocka and myriad talents from the Mowelfund community such as Nick Deocampo and Raymond Red, Beyond Mainstream documents the robust energy of nascent independent filmmaking in the coun...

An experimental comedy short from the Philippines....

A humorous but serious film about the "GARBAGE" in our country....

A juxtaposition of recurring images resulting in a montage of ideas aiming to tackle issues concerning the standard male viewpoint on the female body. How the "female body" counter-attacks is shown....

Mental hospital patients mysteriously dies one by one....

1988 film...

Secret Agent D'D saves tourist town from the deadly vicious vamp....

A restless lizard and a man move faster and faster to a punk beat....

A man crawls on the street of Manila at the height of EDSA Revolution....

In between harvests, to supplement their income, Judith is sent by her father to catch birds which they would peddle come Sunday outside the church. On their trip to the city, Judith requests that they watch a movie after selling off all the birds. W...

A man finds answers and more questions as he looks beyond the water's surface....

A family witnesses the transformation of their garbage into a monster....

In facing apartment units, two men share parallel stories. One, distraught over the death of John Lennon, contemplates on killing himself. The other goes into a fit deciding how to part with his 3-years-old toothbrush....

A bride walks on the desert. She takes off her bridal ornaments and turns into a harlot. A multitude of people crawl on their bellies, become sick and soon die. A volcano erupts. White ashes of lahar cover the earth. The bride remembers her betrothal...

An impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis....

A young boy from the province goes to the city for the first time and learns about the urban life through the characters inside a jeepney....

Experimental essay film....

Rumored to have used footage salvaged from a commercial studio dumpster, the film is a commentary on Filipino onscreen macho culture and one of the rare surviving works in the brief filmmaking career of Ramon ‘RJ’ Leyran. It was a product of the las...