Luis Ruiz

Surrounded by tensions and secrets, a teenage boy searches for validation and navigates life with a dysfunctional family following an HIV diagnosis.

A loving but impoverished grandmother of an autistic child tragicomically loses everything and turns into someone society reckons her to be.

Ma’Rosa a quatre enfants. Elle tient une petite épicerie dans un quartier pauvre de Manille où tout le monde la connaît et l’apprécie. Pour joindre les deux bouts, elle et son mari Nestor y revendent illégalement des narcotiques. Un jour ils sont arrêtés. Face à des policiers corrompus, les enfants de Rosa feront tout pour racheter la liberté de leurs parents.

Joshua , a timid teenager, comes home one night after beaten up by the school's bully. Feeling the urge to avenge himself, he decides to take matters into his own hands. But things don't go as planned. Now, he is left with no choice but to seek help from his policeman father.

The community of Maras in Cusco extracts natural salt from a complex of pools. According to legend, the salt flat was formed by the tears of the Inca Ayar Cachi who was buried by his brothers before he came to found Cusco.