OFW the Movie

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

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.

Through a blend of archival photos and videos of OFW families, Paliparan delves into the lives of OFW families from the perspective of an OFW child. The visual imagery is paired with a personal essay that reflects on the experiences of an OFW child hoping for a brighter future.

A son of an overseas Filipino worker documents his time with his father who had recently returned full-time back home after being overseas for so long.

The world is flooding. It's been raining for weeks on end and 12 year old Briggs is the last in the line of kids to be sacrificed in a ritualistic drowning.

Min-seok and Yoon-hee have been dating for three years. Yoon-hee tells Min-seok that she wanted to get married a year ago. However, Min-seok is not ready to get married yet, so he keeps putting it off. Yoon-hee struggles with her father's violence and thinks marriage is her way out. When she first saw Yoon-hee, she was happy, but now, when she sees her, Min-seok feels frustrated. One day, he suddenly gets a call from Min-young, who used to follow him when he was young. Min-seok met Min-young as a change of mood. He is surprised to see Min-young, who has changed into a sexy figure different from before. As soon as Min-young sees Min-seok, she falls in love with Min-seok. When she meets Min-young, she doesn't think of Yoon-hee.

Gabi is undermined when her only friend gets attention from the boy who assaulted her in the past. As night falls on Tel Aviv, the friendship is tested.

Suyeon comes back to her hometown to find the sound that disappeared. She meets Kyungmin, whom she has not seen in a long time, and they realize that their memories are different when they share their stories.

Arriving in Bangkok, former boxer Marco Boschi meets Fabio and Andrea to organize the delivery of a cargo of heroin to Italy