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CCM INAUGURAL SCREENING
Short Films Showcase
Rooted in distinctly local realities, this program traces lives shaped by labor, survival, and moral choice in the margins of the city. These films confront social pressure and personal reckoning with urgency and compassion, revealing how resilience takes form in everyday struggle.
RUNTIME
1 hr 29 min
RATING
PG
Champ Green
Clyde Gamale
2025
In a small farming town, a graduating high school girl struggles to convince her distrustful father to allow her to continue her studies in college after her older sister gets pregnant while being sent to the same university.
City's Laundry and Taxes
Diana Galang
2025
In a small town outside of Manila in 2017, a laundromat owner’s son finds his missing classmate’s ID in a police uniform’s dirty laundry.
Sunog sa Sugbo
Owen Lepiten
2025
A teenage boy, desperate to rebuild his family’s life after a fire, takes a dangerous job that forces him to set another slum ablaze.
Figat
Handiong Kapuno
2025
While the world is lost in screens, a young Kalinga girl – untouched by the pull of technology – brings a handmade instrument to class, carrying the voice of her ancestors and inspiring a quiet yet powerful return to cultural pride.
Hasang
Daniel de la Cruz
2025
One summer, Boni witnesses people transforming into animals and returning to the wilderness, only to find his grandmother slowly becoming a St. Peter Fish — glug glug glug.
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