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Tipping the Scales

Southeast Asian Short Films Exhibition and Discussion

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  • Date:
  • Time:
  • Location:
  • September 19, 2025
  • 4 PM
  • Street Kohi, Quezon City
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  • Date:
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  • October 10, 2025
  • 5 PM
  • Harong Cafe, Quezon City
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Short Films

Notes from the Periphery

By Tulapop Saenjaroen

Documentary | 2021 | 13 mins | Thailand, UK

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Commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival as an exploration into the globalised shipping networks, liminal territories and spaces of trade and labour that converge on the port city of Laem Chabang in Thailand.

February 1st

By Leila Macaire, Mo Mo

Documentary | 2021 | 12 mins | Myanmar, France

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February 1st 2021 : the military staged a coup in the republic of Myanmar. Through the portraits of two women filmmakers, one Burmese the other French, who have both witnessed the country in a very different light, this visual documentary explores through a travel diary their reflection toward art, revolution and freedom

Brownout Capital

By Pabelle Manikan

Documentary | 2024 | 14 mins | Philippines

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In the outskirts of Palawan, a man hunts for ice after dark while a woman struggles to keep her ice business afloat amidst erratic electricity. “Brownout Capital” delves into the lives of locals  coping with the constant power outages in their hometown.

The River Runs Still

By Mai Huyền-Chi

Documentary | 2024 | 15 mins | Vietnam

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A stateless woman preparing to leave her houseboat faces a defining moment when her husband returns with devastating news and falls into the water.

Headhunter's Daughter

By Don Eblajan

Fiction | 2021 | 15 mins | Philippines

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Leaving her family behind, Lynn traverses the harrowing roads of the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer

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Empty Closets | On Queer Liberation

To be queer is to live in defiance of closets imposed by fear and prejudice. This forum gathers narratives of love, survival, and resistance, reminding us that queer stories are not margins, but essential threads of our collective fight for human rights.
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Ghosts of Future Past | On Martial Law

Southeast Asian Short Films Exhibition and Discussion

This year’s Active Vista Human Rights Festival: TRESE calls you to gather, remember, and resist, through powerful films that confront the haunting legacies of Martial Law.
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One Death is Too Many | On Extra-Judicial Killings

The war on drugs has left thousands of families grieving and countless voices silenced. But every life taken is one too many. Through film and dialogue, this forum confronts the narratives that justified violence and asks how to resist forgetting, preserve truth, and seek justice.
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Aswang

by Alyx Arumpac

When Rodrigo Duterte is voted president of the Philippines, he sets in motion a machinery of death to execute suspected drug peddlers, users, and small-time criminals. Aswang follows people whose fates entwine with the growing violence during two years of killings in Manila.
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