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Movies Made By John Torres (28)

Taking my Time to Dance (2024)

Something seems to be preparing Rana. It appears after spending the day with their grandmother and their friend Saada. In the afternoon, as a hopeful gesture, after getting in drag for the first time. Rana comes home from a night of clubbing (plus getting ...

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Room in a Crowd (2023)

Rooted in Filipino realities – both concrete and cinematically reimagined – John Torres' meticulous yet generous approach is a synthesis of the personal and the political. Assembling fragments of discordant images and murmuring voices, this inventive p ...

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Si Toto Mart (2023)

Five years after their late brother's death, three siblings reunite in their hometown to celebrate her birthday with their 7-year-old niece who no longer remembers her existence. ...

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Age of Blight (2021)

In Age of Blight, 12 Asian filmmakers capture and imagine life under the pandemic, from the hospital corridors of Marawi to protest rallies in the streets of Bangkok. The film mirrors light amidst the chaos and darkness, life in the face of death. Partici ...

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For My Alien Friend (2019)

Stories of Filipino men and women, and other living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear time and dreams alike–all connected from the lens and experience of a stranger, an Alien whose language is disconnected and demands an ...

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Itsy Bitsy (2019)

A family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider. ...

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We Still Have to Close Our Eyes (2019)

John Torres repurposes documentary footage captured from the sets of various Filipino productions (including the likes of Lav Diaz and Erik Matti) into an eerie, elliptical sci-fi narrative about human avatars controlled by apps. ...

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Tristan und Isolde (2019)

Tristan, King Marke's most loyal vassal, takes the Irish princess Isolde to Cornwall to be married off to his master. During the journey, Isolde uses a deadly poison in an attempt to extinguish the intense but unspoken love between her and Tristan that had ...

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Nervous Translation (2019)

Eight year-old Yael, shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. One day she finds out about a pen that can "translate" the thoughts and feelings of nervous people. ...

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Haunted: A Last Visit to the Red House (2017)

During the World War 2, Japanese soldiers raid houses in the Philippines. Thousands of men were shot and killed while women were brought to the Bahay na Pula and raped. The Bahay na Pula is being demolished. From the 1000+ comfort women, only a few remain ...

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After Nonoy Estarte, a certain Orpheus, and those flowers in Dahilayan that accompanied this other sense they told me about (2017)

Inspired by an artist's drawings in the South, I saw paintings that depicted the indigenous people's view of the origins of the world. The film is the tale of our nation and basic things: water, plants, body, and their own interaction through time. ...

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The Rachels (2017)

After a popular teen falls to her death, her best friend basks in the glow of the social media attention, while their rival seeks to avenge the past and uncover the truth behind the mysterious death. ...

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People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose (2016)

The unfinished movie of the late Celso Ad Castillo now a Cinema One Originals documentary film. ...

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Shotgun Tuding (2014)

Tuding sets out on a journey to a distant town to track down the man who got her youngest sister pregnant, and she's not going home without him. A pancit western set in the late-1940s. ...

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Lukas the Strange (2013)

A small town in the Philippines is turned upside down by the arrival of a film crew that has everyone excited. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Lukas finds his own world overturned when he is told that his father is a tikbalang (half horse, half man). His father's d ...

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Study on Lukas in Lukas the Strange (2012)

Village miracles caught on tape: images of a river that must be crossed to erase heartaches, imagined with a boy who has never experienced sorrow. ...

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Big Boy (2011)

BIG BOY is a coming-of-age tale about a boy and his family in 1950s Mindoro, Philippines, and how he is groomed into becoming the poster boy for his parent's home-based business. The film is an experimental portrait of a family amidst change -- an experien ...

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Breather (2011)

A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a personal meditation of sorts. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, existence ...

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Muse (2011)

A film inspired by birds, planes, and flight. Based on a poem by Filipino writer Allan Pastrana. ...

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Silent Film (2011)

Black-and-white sequence of contemporary urban life, jittery images recorded by a 1940s motion-picture camera, and a sleepy narration of words, written by Filipino poet and singer Lourd De Veyra. ...

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Very Specific Things at Night (2011)

A mobile phone film shot in Mahiyan Street (Shy Street), Sikatuna, a stone's throw away from the house of Chavit Singson, who also led the masses to bring then-president Estrada out of the presidential palace. ...

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Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song (2010)

Sarah is a debt collector who lives among the inhabitants of the village of Guimbal on the island of Panay. She wants to find the young man who appeared to her in a dream and goes to the island of Negros. Here, as she interacts with the inhabitants, Sarah ...

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Sewer (2008)

An examination of poverty and violence and the influence it has on two boys who live in a slum. ...

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Years When I Was a Child Outside (2008)

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities. ...

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Todo Todo Teros (2006)

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together t ...

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Tawidgutom (2004)

TAWIDGUTOM is an experimental love poem composed of images that recur and repeat themselves. ...

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Movies Starring John Torres (3)

The Great Cinema Party (2012)

A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War as its foremost attractions. There, they explore the island and retire in a rustic mansion used once to ma ...

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Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement (2010)

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement. ...

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Todo Todo Teros (2006)

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together t ...

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