John Torres Movies

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...

After discovering a hidden clause in his work insurance, Celso, a factory worker, goes extreme and faces a life-altering decision, challenging...

Stories of Filipino men and women, and other living things passing through similar objects, familiar spaces, non-linear time and dreams...

Rooted in Filipino realities – both concrete and cinematically reimagined – John Torres’ meticulous yet generous approach is a...

A couple wakes up and talks about a dream.

Something seems to be preparing Rana. It appears after spending the day with their grandmother and their friend Saada. In the afternoon, as a hopeful...

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as...

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...

A film inspired by birds, planes, and flight. Based on a poem by Filipino writer Allan Pastrana.

John Torres repurposes documentary footage captured from the sets of various Filipino productions (including the likes of Lav Diaz and Erik Matti)...

During the World War 2, Japanese soldiers raid houses in the Philippines. Thousands of men were shot and killed while women were brought to the Bahay...

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

Inspired by an artist's drawings in the South, I saw paintings that depicted the indigenous people's view of the origins of the world. The film is...

Composed of several vignettes that resemble snapshots of urban life; they are juxtaposed with images of love, friendship and everyday life.

TAWIDGUTOM is an experimental love poem composed of images that recur and repeat themselves.

The unfinished movie of the late Celso Ad Castillo now a Cinema One Originals documentary film.

A mobile phone film shot in Mahiyain Street, Sikatuna, a stone's throw away from the house of Chavit Singson, who also led the masses to bring...

A young lady recovers something from a recycle bin. He is brought back to life. She sleeps. He sees his future in her through photographs from her...

Village miracles caught on tape: images of a river that must be crossed to erase heartaches, imagined with a boy who has never experienced sorrow.

　　One shot of things a girl at once did not see.