Martika Ramirez Escobar

Alaga (2024)

Gloria, a middle-aged seamstress, and her son Bayani live in the House, a structure in constant decay. As Bayani's birthday approaches, mother, son, and the House are forced to confront their innermost desires. ...

When the house lights come on (2023)

In 2044, a middle-aged gay man finds himself ageing out of the Manila rave scene. A chance encounter with a mischievous ex-lover changes the tune of his last dance. ...

A Catholic Schoolgirl (2023)

A 15-year-old A-student defies the views of her all-girls Catholic school as she confronts her feelings for a school nun. ...

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (2023)

Mila struggles as she remains unpaid at work and finds comfort in a love interest through his constant phone calls. ...

Where is the Lie? (2023)

When a hopeless romantic transwoman matches with a seemingly perfect guy on a dating app, her chance at love takes a dark turn when he ghosts her, unraveling an intricate web of deceit, lies, and catfishing orchestrated by a sociopathic mastermind. ...

When This Is All Over (2023)

When a rich kid slacker meets a working class breadwinner, the two form an unlikely friendship in spite of their differences. With the pandemic and society bearing down on them, they fight back by throwing the biggest illegal rave the lockdown has ever see ...

Leonor Will Never Die (2022)

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay. ...

The Tigers of Infanta (2022)

Henry (2021)

Teenager Henry begins longing for another life when he visits a mansion's construction site to seek compensation for his older brother's work injury. ...

Zack Tabudlo: Episode (2021)

A collection of OPM singer-songwriter Zack Tabudlo's most personal experiences. Those experiences are put into stories, stories put into songs, and songs brought to life through a series of fourteen music videos with different narratives about love, heartb ...

Songs Happen Like Refrains in a Revolution (2021)

A woman tries to write a song. She looks for the right words and melody in places and through people. Through a hand-drawn map from a woman thrice her age, she finds people who have found what she is looking for. They tell her about how they found them. Sh ...

Love in the Ungodly Hour (2021)

A love story between two young men, separated after one of them contracted a highly stigmatized disease. Years later, the guy who abandoned his former lover due to that illness comes back in need of love and acceptance, which he failed to provide in their ...

Don’t worry, we still hear you (2020)

A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco's wish list for Philippine Cinema. ...

Living Things (2020)

Kints and Charles have been together for almost a decade. One day, Kints wakes up and discovers that her lover has changed, literally. Although troubled at first, she eventually understands that what happened is a natural phenomenon. Through this, she i ...

People and Plants (2018)

A short documentary about village residents and their vegetable gardens set in the community that started urban farming in metropolitan Manila. It talks about its benefits, their successes in promoting it across other cities and abroad, and the growing awa ...

Quadrilaterals (2017)

A portrait of a family of Overseas Filipino Workers seen through the objects in their home. ...

Processions (2017)

The news of Patricia's sudden death disrupts the lives of her friends. After several years apart, they have to meet back together to pay their last respects to their dearly departed. ...

Fish Out of Water (2016)

Minjae is a Korean-Filipino teenager who is often discriminated against for being mixed-blood. His utmost desire to belong to the homogeneous and hierarchical Korean society is tested when his single Filipina mother decides to send him to the Philippines o ...

If People Such as We Cease to Exist (2016)

A grieving widow attempts to find the missing piece of her husband's remains. ...

Only Recollection of Past Events (2016)

Memories shot from an iPhone to 往事只能回味 by You Ya. ...

Anatomy of Love (2015)

A 12-act anthology film about the lives of several people whose love stories take tragic turns as they try to fill in the void in their respective lives. ...

Tisoy (2015)

A university student learns that it is not so easy to borrow a library book. Martika Ramirez Escobar and Sari Estrada's segment in the anthology "Anatomiya ng Pag-Ibig. ...

Where's Grandpa Mê? (2014)

A mother tells her young son that his grandfather has turned into a goat in order to cover up the grandfather's death. ...

Stone Heart (2014)

"Pusong Bato" (Stone Heart) is about Cinta Dela Cruz, a middle-aged faded actress who tries to relive and remember her glorious days as a movie star in the 1970s. She does this by watching films at home everyday until one day, during an earthquake; somethi ...

Dindo (2014)

Film Dindo, the son of a film editor in the 1970s, revisits the old workspace of his father and finds himself talking with the characters of a film. ...

Arrows (2012)

A short film written and directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar. ...

Hando (2011)

A writer narrates the moral conundrums of the times. ...

Leonor Will Never Die (2022)

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay. ...

Don’t worry, we still hear you (2020)

A filmmaker reflects on the late film critic Alexis Tioseco's wish list for Philippine Cinema. ...