These are fifteen feature films you shouldn’t miss from the QCinema International Film Festival which is taking place from November 14 – 23, 2025 at the Gateway, Eastwood, Trinoma, Fisher Mall, Cloverleaf, and Robinsons Galleria, in Quezon City, Philippines.

10s Across the Borders by Chan Sze-wei – Philippines, Singapore, Germany, UK | 2025 – 100 minutes

Four queer pioneers are growing flourishing communities in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. (Mubi)

3670 by Park Joon-ho – South Korea | 2025 – 124 minutes

Cheol-jun (Cho You-hyun) is adjusting to life in South Korea, having defected from the North. He’s being supported by a Christian church that helps out defectors like him. The thing is, Cheol-jun is gay, and wants to start exploring the South’s more open gay scene. He eventually gathers the courage to attend a mixer, where he meets the much more extroverted Yeong-jun (Kim Hyeon-mok). Sparks fly, but Cheol-jun’s life as a defector might not have room for the kind of drama a relationship might bring in. (QCinema 2025)

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A Useful Ghost by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke – Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany | 2025 – 130 minutes

March (Witsarut Himmarat) is mourning the death of his wife Nat (Davika Hoorne) by dust poisoning. But their love proves to be stronger than death when Nat returns in the form of a vacuum cleaner. March’s mother, who never approved of their marriage in the first place, fears that her son’s relationship with a house appliance might cause scandal, but Nat proves to be useful in other ways. A Useful Ghost wields absurdity as a weapon to rail against the broken structures of Thai society that keep the working class down. (QCinema 2025)

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Amoeba by Siyou Tan – Singapore, Netherlands, Spain, France, South Korea | 2025 – 98 minutes

Sixteen year-old Choo Xin Yu (Ranice Tay) often has trouble fitting in. When she enrolls in an elite all-girls school, she expects to experience much of the same. Surprisingly, she finds three other girls who turn out to be kindred spirits. The four form an ersatz gang, pledging loyalty to each other while creating an outlet for their rebellious impulses. The girls record their various misadventures on video, which unfortunately leads them to being discovered. (QCinema 2025)

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Diamond in the Sand by Janus Victoria – Japan, Malaysia, Philippines | 2025 – 102 minutes

Salaryman Yoji (Lily Franky), following the death of his mother, realizes that he has nothing to look forward to in his solitary life in Japan. He impulsively travels to the Philippines, following his mother’s Filipina caregiver Minerva (Maria Isabel Lopez). He becomes involved in the life of Minerva and her daughter (Charlie Dizon), and slowly discovers a different way of being. Janus Victoria’s debut wrestles with the Japanese concept of kodokushi, or the lonely death, by providing the contrast of the Filipino sense of community. (QCinema 2025)

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Family Matters by Ke-yin Pan – Taiwan | 2025 – 99 minutes

Family Matters tells the story of the Hsiao family, jumping around in time to discover the complex narratives of this one family unit. Daughter Spring (Queena Huang) discovers that she might be adopted. A decade earlier, mother Autumn (Alexia Kao) struggles with trying for a second child, enduring the trials of artificial insemination. Much later, son Summer (Tseng Jing-Hua) is headed to military service, and seeks to connect with father Winter (Lan Wei-hua), who years ago had alienated his family with his volatile temper and gambling addiction. (QCinema 2025)

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Human Resource by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Thailand | 2025 – 122 minutes

A drama that explores contemporary human life amid a global decline in birth rates. (Mubi)

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Lost Land by Akio Fujimoto – Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany | 2025 – 99 minutes

Siblings Somira and Shafi (Shomira Rias Uddin and Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin) are of the Rohingya minority, and have been staying in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Hoping to reunite with their family, they leave the safety of the camp and set off on a perilous journey to Malaysia. (QCinema 2025)

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Lucky Lu by Lloyd Lee Choi – USA, Canada | 2025 – 103 minutes

Lu (Chang Chen) works in New York City as a delivery driver, supporting his family in China with his meager income. When the e-bike he uses for work is stolen, he scrambles to get it back while trying to take of his recently arrived family. Shot in gritty 16mm, Lucky Lu is a portrait of an American migrant experience that has grown increasingly dire in an America that no longer feels like the land of the free. (QCinema 2025)

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Renoir by Chie Hayakawa – Japan, France, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia | 2025 – 120 minutes

Amid the economic boom of 1980s Japan, eleven year old Fuki (Yui Suzuki) is trying to deal with the inevitable loss of her terminally ill father. While her mother throws herself into work and deals with the impending death of her husband in a business-like manner, Fuki tries various means of escape, with experiences that range between quirky and dangerous. Following her debut Plan 75, writer and director Hayakawa makes another movie about death, this time from the perspective of a younger person who has yet to really reckon with the idea of morality. (QCinema 2025)

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Skin of Youth by Ash Mayfair – Vietnam, Singapore, USA, Japan | 2025 – 122 minutes

Transgender woman San (Tran Quan) and her cage fighter partner Nam (Võ Điền Gia Huy) delve into the criminal underworld of 90s Saigon in order to make enough money to pay for gender-affirming surgery. San courts the attention of a powerful oligarch that’s become fascinated by her, while Nam grapples with what their relationship becomes as they pursue more money. (QCinema 2025)

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Summer’s Camera by Sung Divine – South Korea | 2025 – 83 minutes

Teenager Summer (Kim Si-a) used to love taking photos, but put her camera away after the death of her father. But a crush with a female classmate has her pulling out her camera to capture an image of her object of affection. Developing the film causes her to discover some photos of her father’s high school lover. In doing so, she discovers something she never knew about her father, and she deals with these new facts as she herself goes through the trials of a first love. (QCinema 2025)

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The President’s Cake by Hasan Hadi – USA | 2025 – 102 minutes

In 1990s Iraq, amid the UN sanctions that made resources scarce among the population, schoolgirl Lamia (Banin Ahmed Nayef) is randomly picked to make a cake for her class to celebrate Saddam Hussein’s birthday. She and her grandmother Bibi (Waheed Thabet Khreibat)  head into town to find ingredients for the cake, and while Lamia is intent on her quest for ingredients, Bibi has other plans for her young granddaughter. (QCinema 2025)

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The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania – France, Tunisia, USA, UK, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Italy | 2025 – 89 minutes

The film that explores the killing of Hind Rajab, a young Palestinian girl who was killed during the 2024 Israeli invasion of Gaza. (QCinema 2025)

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The World of Love by Yoon Ga-eun – South Korea | 2025 – 119 minutes

Seventeen year-old Jooin (Seo Su-bin) is brash, outgoing, and unpredictable. Her outward bravado, however, seems to stem from a dark incident in her past that she is still recovering from. The World of Love paints a portrait of trauma and recovery that goes beyond the familiar tropes that most movies traffic in. It instead points to a wide range of human experience that allows each person their own means of coping. (QCinema 2025)

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