Movies by Ping Medina

Kabayo

Kabayo

A story about Laurene who wants to elevate her seven-year relationship with Conrad. When Easton comes inito the picture, she believes she is the perfect addition to their sexual relationship.

Maskara

Maskara

The Philippines is being geared up to be interconnected through a system called One Wired Nation (OWN). This would allow faster and easier access to information across the country, from the smallest barangay to Malacañang. With OWN, progress is inevitable, says Bert Javelo from Prime Connections, the company who won the contract to build and manage OWN. Bert promises instant service and progress to the country. But Pia Gorospe is not convinced and smells something wrong.

Immanuel

Immanuel

The film is set in a speculative Philippines where air pollution has reached irreparable proportions. Air pollution has rendered breathable oxygen scare. This makes it the main resource around which society revolves. The film follows two protagonists: Leo Sagaysay, a young father and husband who works at the Oxygen Factory, and his wife Rubi Sagaysay. Together they have a son, whom they struggle to support. The appearance of ex-factory worker Tess at their door sets off a chain of events that leads to the downfall of the Sagaysay family.

Pride and Honor

Pride and Honor

When the people of Maratabat finally realize that their time under the corrupt politician clan of the Abubakars has to come to an end— a series of violent acts occur one after another. The people rally behind another clan –the Mahardikas – to end the violence and place a new leader in their region. Will the Mahardikas choose a path of violence or peace? Will it be for honor or will it be for pride?

Numbalikdiwa

Numbalikdiwa

Mystery surrounds all the characters and seemingly ordinary events become suspenseful and thrilling as the fate of two souls forever intertwined, affect destiny, change life… cause death.

The Inmate

The Inmate

Set in two contrasting environments that underline the same premise of imprisonment, Selda tells the story of Rommel, a young man who accidentally kills a boy, resulting in his incarceration. Inside the jail, he befriends another inmate, who becomes his rock and protector. Seven years later, Rommel is living in the province as a farmer together with Sita his wife. Esteban tracks down Rommel in hopes of renewing a brewing love affair. Rommel and Sita welcome Esteban into their lives until their intimacy crosses borderlines and results in the ...

Kamera Obskura

Kamera Obskura

The title “Kamera Obskura” is a Filipino spelling of the latin “Camera Obscura” which simply means “dark room”. The film’s concept adheres to formalist cinema, where the filmmaker’s thesis is to make a semblance of a vintage film seemingly produced sometime in the late 1920s to early 1930s in the Philippines. The thesis is to conjure up a film from a period that did not really exist in Philippine cinema’s historical cultural heritage as we know it, such as a pseudo-expressionist / experimental Filipino cinema of the silent film era. It is a ...

Huling Biyahe

Huling Biyahe

Two aging couple who work in the Filipino film industry, a linear editor and an ex-dubber, who, at the twilight of their lives, decide to part ways to know what’s missing in their lives. They both explore things they haven’t explored before as they both undergo a sexual awakening in their lives. The wife finds comfort in a local school janitor whom she sees a slight parallelism to her life. On the other hand, the husband gets enamored on a shy barrio lass whose face elicit the same weakness he has for women chinita eyes.

Transit

Transit

Moises, a single Filipino dad, comes home to celebrate his son's fourth birthday and learns that the Israeli government is going to deport the children of foreign workers.

Dahling Nick

Dahling Nick

The story of Nick Joaquin, who only accepted the National Artist Award on the condition that the Marcos administration release a well-known writer who was being unjustly detained during Martial Law.

Dukot

Dukot

Based on a true kidnapping event, Carlo Sandoval was kidnapped instead of his sister.

The Cannibal in the Jungle

The Cannibal in the Jungle

An American scientist who was convicted of killing and cannibalizing two colleagues in the jungles of Flores, Indonesia in 1977. Branded "The American Cannibal" by the press during his trial, Dr. Timothy Darrow defended himself by claiming a mythic human-ape creature was responsible for the murders. The news outlet documented an indigenous tribe on Flores, the very same island where the hobbit remains were discovered, which had its own accounts of little wild men that stood just over three feet tall, climbed trees, walked on two feet and t...

Ang Araw sa Likod Mo

Ang Araw sa Likod Mo

A story about the heroism, redemption, and sacrifice of both sides of the Mindanao conflict.

Mandirigma

Mandirigma

The ill-fated clash between the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) police commandos and Moro rebels.

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Iliw

Iliw

During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, a young girl from Vigan and an idealistic Japanese officer fall in love. With a war between them and disapproval from both sides, the two struggle to find their own piece of happiness in the world as duty and family threaten to tear them apart.