A reflected story

“A Reflected Story” is fragmented into five short tales that reveal the need to reflect on how our lives are sustained by the cult to images and the representation of a world in decline.

Soulmate

Jalte spends most of his time in the digital worlds of virtual reality. In his loneliness, he creates Selina – an AI companion designed to become his perfect Soulmate.

Andai Waktu Bisa Diulang Kembali

Dinar falls for Faiz, who brings color to her dull life. Amid their romance, she faces mounting troubles—unpaid tuition, her late father’s debts, and her mother’s cancer. Then, Firman, a wealthy man, offers her an easy escape—but at the cost of betraying Faiz.

Morning Afternoon Night

They say you can start over, but if the music in your head is different, and the smells aren’t the same... then what? Where is that start? In a single day, Marta, a young Russian migrant in Perth faces the end of her visa and the question of who she really is when home is nowhere to be found.

Vermelho no Cinzento

One morning, fear is suddenly gone. Pedro wakes up with a nosebleed for the third time that week. Unable to make sense of what is happening to him, he leaves behind his room, his job and the life he has built, setting off with nowhere to go. In a bar, an unfamiliar song brings him to a halt. After a lifetime spent running away, what happens when, for the first time, he decides to listen?

Side Effects May Include...

A group of friends take a trip up to the U.P. for summer vacation. The trip takes a turn when one of them ends up dead.

Child No. 82

At a wake, a persevering high school student must prove that he is the 82nd child of the Philippines’ biggest action-fantasy movie star in the hopes of seeing his late father one last time.

Os Ruminantes

Silent Verses

A stuttering young boy, pressured by his father, finds solace in his bicycle—until a troubled boy steals it, leading to an unlikely friendship.

I Am Neo

Neo was three and a half years old when a devastating car accident left him with a severe brainstem injury. After five days suspended between life and death, he wakes up unable to breathe, speak, walk, or eat on his own. In the hospital, his parents, Lior and Galit, pick up a camera and never put it down. Shaped from hundreds of hours of intimate footage, 'I Am Neo' is a portrait of a child and his family slowly rebuilding their lives, revealing both the fragility of life, and the strength of the human spirit.