Raya Martin Movies

The story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when video games were still a novelty....

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

Martin travels to Itbayat island, of the Batan group, on the far north of the Phillipines, to record the customs of its inhabitants and their life...

Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet...

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

Rita is named after a famous American movie star whom her late, former actress grandmother once adored. She lives in one of Manila’s oldest...

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic...

A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in...

Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply...

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

A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug...

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.

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...

Raya Martin loves old silent films and knows better than anyone how to use old moods and techniques in his own films. You could say that he loves...

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...

Raya Martin's award-winning short film Bakasyon is about a young girl who goes to the province to take care of her grandma, where she discovers...

Mix-mastering history, the paranoid thriller, the documentary and the landscape film, pic tells of very different fates for two sets of brothers in...

A young girl from the countryside dreams of disappearing. She plays a lonely game of hide-and-seek while her mother quotes the Bible and her father...

A one-sided romance, from the gazer (JK Anicoche) and the subject of his gaze (Abner Delina), a sleeping man wearing a coat and a top hat.