在煩囂混沌都市中穿梭的我們，哪裡可以寄存那蠢蠢欲動的慾望？喪偶多年的寡佬老闆，單純膽小的青頭仔，魁梧陰沉的毒販，花心貪玩的小鮮肉，四個失落的靈魂，錯落在城市不同的角落，尋愛，尋歡，尋慰藉，尋依靠。尋尋覓覓，沉沉寂寂，他們追求的那個她到底是虛幻還是真實存在？

Divorced salaryman Yoji has just buried his mother in Tokyo. With few meaningful relationships left, he comes to grips with the realization that he has nothing to live for. A chance encounter with Minerva, a Filipina migrant worker who appears to sense his sadness, urges him to see his situation in a new way. A former nightclub entertainer, Minerva now works as a caregiver to provide for her only child in the Philippines. When Yoji discovers the decomposing corpse of his neighbor, an old man whose name he does not know, the death is ruled a kodokushi, or the lonely death. Unwilling to meet the same fate, Yoji throws caution to the wind to follow Minerva to Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

2024 Filipino film

2024 Filipino film

2006 film by Chito S. Roño

Based on a true story. 1996, open sea. During his shift on a transatlantic ship’s deck, Joel, a religious Filipino sailor, discovers Dumitru, a Romanian stowaway hidden between some containers. If he is spotted by the Taiwanese officers running the vessel, Dumitru is at risk to be thrown overboard. Joel decides to hide him, as a sign of his gratitude towards God. Soon, a dangerous cat and mouse game begins. When his crew, his own friends, even God itself start to turn their backs on him, Joel learns that he has to face his cruel destiny alone.

赛琳娜的父亲把她卖给了蒂亚戈，蒂亚戈让她成为了奴隶并百般虐待她。在蒂亚戈收留的盲奴儿子多梦的帮助下，她计划着如何走出这个人间地狱。

男同志莱纳，年逾古稀，自知行将就木，一心所系只是一头癌症垂危的流浪狗瓦卡，直至遇到一个小伙子，他才走出“衣柜”，勇敢表白。

在不久的将来，马尼拉是一个几乎乌托邦式的城市，人们在午夜过后在城市的随机区域陷入神秘的停电事故后消失了。 认为这都是骗局的四个朋友发现了自己。 他们将要找出真正潜伏在陌生黑暗中的东西。 如果他们熬夜的话......

影片讲述遭受台风破坏一年后的菲律宾中部城市，塔克洛班市和莱特岛人们如何恢复生活的故事。戛纳电影节最佳导演，一亮相就备受世界影坛瞩目的菲律宾导演布里兰特·门多萨（Brillante Mendoza）新作《塔克洛班的困境》也将出现在展映单元。布里兰特·门多萨（Brillante Mendoza）的作品有着和贾樟柯相似的影像和思想风格，《塔克洛班的困境》中表现的淋漓尽致。

A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion of his film and with greedy film festival programmers. And one about a religious leader. Also a little like Diaz himself?
The films of Lav Diaz often tell serious epic stories, but they are still not entirely free from humour and satire. For instance in this film, Diaz takes the mickey out of festival programmers and also sketches a picture of himself that is not entirely free from self-mockery.
The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, there’s another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues.
By telling the stories in parallel, similarities become visible between Homer’s struggle with cinema and Turbico's struggle with faith.

An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption.

当地报纸的记者相继失踪，追查同事下落的腐败媒体人西索，遇上在监狱的兼职杀手罗曼。