The film Lilet Never Happened is a character driven story about Lilet, a maladjusted Filipino-American street-girl, who becomes Manila's most famous child prostitute. International social worker Gloria desperately tries to safe Lilet from the sex industry but she fails again and again. Though Lilet gets many opportunities to quit, she stubbornly chooses the hard way. The film is aiming for a broad arthouse audience. Even though the story is shown through the point of view of Filipino children, the film is very accessible. A clear and engaging storyline is combined with humor and hard hitting scenes, which are alternated with high pace. Style-wise the film could be compared to films like City of God and Slumdog Millionaire.
USA (2007) Six partners of a firm discover the dead body of an associate the morning after their weekly card game. Panicked and with no clue as to who could have committed the murder, they decide to bury the body in order to keep the secret between them and ensuring that nobody will have to take the fall. To their shock, they are soon contacted by a mysterious stranger who possesses a videotape of the burial and become the targets of a diabolical extortion plot. Is it the disgruntled former employee out for revenge? Or could the true culprit be hiding amongst the six of them? As the blackmailer carries out his plan, the six partners driven by the need for self-perseveration quickly turn on one another, and the bodies begin to pile up until only one the one whos been holding the strings all along is left standing.