echoes beyond the horizon

From the inside of a balikbayan box, a daughter plays a video game system gifted to her by her father. She recalls the days before her father went overseas due to the lack of stable and livable employment and the ongoing drug war in the country. A meditation on parental bonds and the OFW experience from a child’s perspective.

The true story of Eudocia Tomas Pullido, an enslaved woman who served Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino-American writer Alex Tizon's family ceaselessly for 56 years.

Janno, the filmmaker, captures mundane but distanced moments at home with his retired OFW father, Michael. As the father-son attempt to rekindle their veiled relationship, years of pent-up sentiment gush out, revealing the key to their long-awaited reconnection.

Loving husband Lino is on a mission: his wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers who make their way to Europe.

Sarah Gonzales, a grade school English teacher, joins the 150,000 Pinoy OFWs working in the United Kingdom to support her husband, Teddy Gonzales, in making a better living for their family. More than just a chronicle of the Filipinos experience working as nurses and caregivers in the UK, this story also charts Sarah's journey to self-discovery from a submissive wife who makes sacrifices for her husband's aspirations to an empowered woman who finds dignity and pride in a humbling job as a caregiver in London.

This is the story of Marie, an OFW in Italy who reflects the lives of most of the Filipinos living in Italy, the real life behind the sacrifices and efforts our countrymen is facing being a Filipino abroad. It also tells a story of how Filipinos are treated and known from this part of the world. An AI generated character perhaps but her life experiences and story is very real to Filipinos living on that country.

Summoning his younger brother Andrew to the city of Dubai, the financially stable Raffy, a Filipino citizen who's spent several years overseas, hopes his sibling can find work so that they can finally move to Canada. Unfortunately, Raffy doesn't expect Andrew to fall in love with his ex-girlfriend, Faye, a woman Raffy, in fact, still cares for very much.

When Bambi discovers that her family has squandered their savings, they devise a plan to cover their debts — but first, she must fake her death.

A woman returns to the Philippines after working abroad to find that her family has fallen apart in her absence.

Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation?

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

A hardworking and loyal OFW, a chef from Dubai, returns home hoping to pursue his dream of owning his restaurant and starting his own life. However, he finds himself at odds with his family and their toxic tendencies, making him question “Where does sacrifice end and selfishness begin?"