After teaching for ten years, Alemberg Ang shifted into film production. His filmmaking is shaped by his passion for socio-civic issues and Philippine arts and literature. His films seek to give cultural minorities a voice in world cinema. Working with filmmakers mostly on their first and second features, his filmography includes: Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir about a Young Girl Coping with Her Father’s Illness (2025) and Plan 75 about Japan’s social systems and elderly care (2022), Sze-Wei Chan’s 10s Across the Borders (2025), and JT Trinidad’s Honey, My Love, So Sweet (2025).
Alemberg Ang
Alemberg Ang participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Alemberg Ang’s submission:
As I am not a cinephile who has seen many films, especially the older ones, I can only rate the ones that I have seen and these films were made fairly recently. I have also added two of the films that I have produced in the line-up as these are the two films that I am most proud of.
— Alemberg Ang| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss | Sonny Calvento | Philippines | 2019 | 16’ | ||
The film has the ability to discuss a longtime labor issue in the Philippines but in a comedic, even absurd manner making the point of the film even more poignant. |
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| WAShhh | Mickey Lai | Malaysia | 2024 | 23’ | ||
The film discusses the topic of menstruation while commenting on the plight of women in a patriarchal society. |
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| Warsha | Dania Bdeir | Lebanon, France | 2022 | 16’ | ||
The film touches a number of issues like the perils of gay and transgender in a Muslim society, the plight of refugees and the unsafe conditions on a construction site. |
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| Bold Eagle | Whammy Alcazaren | Philippines | 2022 | 16’ | ||
One of the films that I produced that I must say is the most absurd and is probably the wildest ride ever any cinephile will experience! |
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| The River That Never Ends 河無止盡 | JT Trinidad | Philippines | 2022 | 20’ | ||
a tender story of a middle-aged transwoman and her job as a companion-for-hire in bustling and complex city like Manila |
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| Hito | Stephen Lopez | Philippines | 2023 | 22’ | ||
The film playfully uses lo-fi VFX to comment about authoritarianism in the Philippines. |
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| Stay Awake, Be Ready Hãy tỉnh thức và sẵn sàng | Phạm Thiên Ân | South Korea, USA, Vietnam | 2019 | 14’ | ||
In one long take, the director was able to show some of the social issues prevalent in Vietnamese society today. |
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| Vox Humana | Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan | Philippines, USA | 2024 | 22’ | ||
One of the films that I've produced that I'm most proud of. Don was able to weave an indigenous story using minimal dialogue in a visually stunning manner. |
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| Tokwifi | Carla Pulido Ocampo | Philippines | 2019 | 20’ | ||
The film was able to showcase an indigenous community in the Philippines yet setting the film in a surreal yet modern manner. |
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| A Guitar in a Bucket | Boyoung Kim | South Korea | 2021 | 15’ | ||
This animation perfectly captures what a comsumerist society today values. |
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