Cínemalayà: Philippine Independent Film Festival 2014

In the middle of the preparation for Taong Putik Festival, a young man penniless and in love, takes on a drug courier job that goes terribly wrong. To save him, his mother now makes the most difficult decision of her life.

A grandfather on the brink of bankruptcy brings his grandchildren back to the community that made and shaped him, only to find out the place is no longer the same.

A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In such a society one has only two choices: to be a victim or a victimizer. What choice will she make?

A gay couple who resolve to stay together is challenged as they attend a wedding.

In 2011, the bloodiest bank heist in Philippine history occurred at Mabuhay Savings Bank in Laguna, leaving ten employees dead, all ruthlessly executed. The perpetrators escape with an estimated P10 million. The robbery is suspected to have been conducted by professionals, as they executed their plan with military precision. Wearing masks to conceal identities, they disabled the bank's security system and held-up the bank personnel inside. Once they got the cash, a fatal mistake leads to an all-out bloodbath. Pressured by the people to resolve the crime, authorities secretly order Crisanto Espina, an ex-cop, to handle the case. Eager to redeem his name, Crisanto hunts down each suspect. But as he finds each name, he unravels the dirty truth behind his extrajudicial duties.

"#Y" ("Hashtag Y") chronicles the adventures of the members of a generation made universal by the realms of social media, the internet, sex, drugs and alcohol, and the occasional YOLO.

A woman is looking forward to settling into a long retirement with her husband. But she quickly grows restless, and when an old flame suddenly turns up, she comes to reassess her past.

Divina is preparing for her daughter Rowena's 13th birthday when she hears shocking news: her daughter has been attacked by a crocodile, her body still missing. As Divina searches for the body of her daughter in the marshlands of Agusan del Sur, she learns a lesson more tragic than her fate: not all predators are underwater. The film is based on actual events.

Children's Show is a full-length film based on a real life story of children ages 10-15 years old being used by a syndicate for an underground wrestling match.

While the marriage of two professors is on the verge of falling apart, the woman is dragged into a scandal involving a young student. On the other hand, the man falls in love with his research -- a deity (supernatural being) that appears to him as the ghost of an old flame.

When Kana, a young T'boli woman, becomes a dreamweaver, she has the chance to weave together her village's warring clans. But, will she give up true love to do so?

Unlike the former Philippine First Lady, Imelda is indifferent towards shoes. To her, they are fraught with the bittersweet nostalgia of childhood, one that was marred by a difficult relationship with her shoe-maker father, Romeo. Growing up, all of hers were handmade by him. Now a mature woman, she takes a pivotal call from the morgue, spurring her search for the perfect pair of shoes for her dead father. The deeper she searches for the perfect shoes, the more she finds herself.

A policewoman roams the city of Manila to fulfill her duties as a police patrol and to look for her lost son.

Separados is a mostly bittersweet, partly comic, partly tragic saga of six men who have separated from their wives. Based on true stories, their parallel and overlapping tales are framed by a church wedding to a second wife by one of them, who grabs another chance at matrimonial bliss.

Miriam is up for a surprise from her husband after a rift caused by the flirty text message of someone named Alex.

A little boy does not know that his grandfather just died. To spare him from grief, his mother brings home a stray goat and tells him it is his grandfather.

An old lady lives with her caregiver while her daughter is overseas. She suffers from Alzheimer and from time to time during the night her bedroom burns. A storm is coming, a little girl plays, the old lady settles to a fateful end.

A man attempts to find himself and the meaning of home while lost in another country.

A beautician named Elvis (also known as Elvira) finds out one day that he has fathered a bouncing baby boy and is left with the challenge of single parenthood.

An old grandmother attends to her afternoon chores around the house when an unexpected visitor brings with her deadly consequences.

An artist and his conflict against his art.

It is about two physically challenged sisters trying to find a way to live a normal life.

A vain man is out to meet a woman he met on Facebook for the first time. While waiting for her, he comes upon a naive guy whom he teaches his ways to attract women. But the vain man may need to learn something more.