Putahe

When their father dies during their mother's hospitalization, a Filipino family goes to extreme and absurd lengths to hide the truth.

Closer to Home weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. She's hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and, ultimately, a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own. A powerful, controversial film that quietly builds to a shattering collision of aspirations and cultures.

Five lives. One city. In the heart of Manila, their stories intertwine through desire, heartbreak, and the rawness of life.

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

A former bar entertainer now lives a quiet life with her husband - until he loses his job. To survive, she returns to the world of adult entertainment, entering a voyeuristic club where everything slowly begins to fall apart.