Movies: Jess Mendoza

In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation....

A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders....

A priest is caught up in a situation, which will compel him to choose between the mandate of the church and his obligations as a citizen under the law of the people....

Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the groups leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy. As the two form a familial bond, their loyalties will be put to the test when one of their targets turns out to...

Manila is besieged by the worst typhoon to hit the country. Talk of the world coming to an end hangs in the air. And five men find themselves stranded inside a police station with a prisoner who may o may not be the devil. It's going to be a long nig...

A story of Ilyong, recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story, his death. Soon after, he was brought into a sleazy funeral home, run by Violet, a greedy homosexual who has learned to survi...

A woman relieves the heavy burden from her past when she finally exacts revenge on the man who murdered her entire family....

Two unusually close friends share every aspect of their lives together. As their lives evolve, their bond remains the only constant....

A disillusioned and suicidal Rizal, a cross-dressing Bonifacio gripped with paranoia, an ex-Katipunero who joins the US army to save his own neck, and a widow whose sex-for-food errands lead her to become the first ever Makapili. These are the histor...

A high school princess is cursed by the geek whose affections she toyed with....

It is a trilogy which follows the story of three individuals must go through desperate measures to hide their secrets....

Filipino director Adolfo Alix Jr. returns to the Festival with this timely story of a couple caught up in Rodrigo Duterte’s violent war on drugs when their son goes missing....

A department store saleslady has had enough of being an underdog. One night, she discovers a peculiar-looking gun right on her doorstep. Her life drastically changes as she discovers how much power owning a gun can give her....

After a turbulent squall in the night, villagers wake up to the astonishing sight of the sea that has turned red....

Set against the drug wars in the Philippines, Maria's husband is murdered in mysterious circumstances and is left to fend for her three children in a police state. As she delves into Manila’s dark underworld of cops, criminals, and drugs to find answ...

Police officers Bong and Roman investigate paranormal killings in ominous talahib grass fields, unraveling a chilling mystery....

Kray, an underappreciated and underpaid stuntwoman, takes on one last job with her former gang only to be trapped in a hellish underworld....

The dramatization of the life of General Ronald dela Rosa....

A thriller about a never-ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm, and the woman caught in between....

A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous....