Ariel Perino Movies

In a toxic hypermasculine world, a man struggles to keep his secret as he drinks and catches up with his nosy friend group.

An intoxicated graduating college student confronts her similarly inebriated father for the first time while waiting for him to drive them home.

In a mental rehabilitation center, a woman, newly turned sixty, with schizoaffective disorder, waits all year for her family to visit on her birthday. But as the day arrives, a typhoon threatens to derail her plans and her sense of reality.

In a small rural town, 9-year-old Gelo comes up with a plan to earn enough money to buy his tricycle-driver father a day off—so he can watch Gelo perform a poem written just for him at the school’s poetry contest.

A drifting young Manilenyo is pushed by his macho uncle to burn his “witch” mother’s corpse, but a returning ghost challenges his hardened conditioning.

A filmmaker sits down with her father through a simple dinner, revealing her heart out on a platter and the quiet tensions they don’t know how to let go of.