QCINEMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026

A young herbolario must wear his absent mother's clothes and his sister's resolve, to join a revolution his father does not believe in.

Buffering through a new country on odd jobs and a phone that speaks for her. An undocumented immigrant is now ready to pair.

An elderly Malaysian-Tamil couple discovers their male goat, set for ceremonial slaughter, is pregnant. Torn between faith and the expectations of their community, they struggle to decide whether to slaughter it or face the wrath of the gods.

At a closing restaurant, a laid-off dishwasher is forced into a paid romance for her survival—until love demands more than a transaction.

In a time and place where abortion is illegal, a husband rejoices at the news of pregnancy while his wife secretly attempts to terminate it. After failed attempts through jumping, running, and medication, she encounters a strange bus and its peculiar driver.

Amor, a 67-year-old beautician, struggles to keep her fading parlor afloat while caring for her grandson. When a senior beauty pageant comes along, she sees a chance to feel seen once again.

Two videographers revisit their memories and captured images of the land, confronting the gap between an imagined utopian Papua and the reality of its landscapes under Javanese and military domination.

Three men orbit a mysterious helicopter crash that occurred years ago high in the mountains. 
As two men make their way up the slopes, an achar (shaman) deep within the forest recounts ancient rain rituals.

An architect comes to survey a derelict mountain mansion, then finds herself haunted by the presence of two strangers in the house.

Confronted with a missing Mama Mary statue within their community, two sisters unravel the mysteries of identity and morality that could only be solved, not by a prayer, but by a kiss.

Three gallery workers steal a Mooi Indië painting, part of a colonial tradition that portrayed Indonesia as an idyllic tropical paradise, and set off in search of the landscape it promises. As their journey slips out of time, they encounter the ghosts and illusions of a colonial dream.

A suicidal manananggal splits in two. Her top half wants to die, but her bottom half wants to live. Chaos erupts in an ukay-ukay depot when two bumbling aswang hunters and a couple of horny teenagers get in the way of their deadly reunion.

On election day, a young man spends an afternoon with the mother who left him six years ago.

When her partner proposes, Ling answers with a story from a past life as a scam caller. As the tale of an unspeakable debt unfolds, what begins as a strange confession starts to reveal something unsettling about their relationship.

A tissue peddler cartel leader becomes an object of spectacle when an amateur documentary filmmaker duo set their eyes on her.

In a future where cows have nearly vanished, Phop, a rich farmer, owns Southeast Asia's last bull. ​As it ages and struggles to produce semen, Phop relies on the unique manual technique of Jon, a poor worker. ​Phop finds himself drawn to Jon's hands.

A struggling young artist takes an odd job as a human racetrack in a rejuvenation workshop and becomes obsessed with snails gliding across his skin.

In the depths of an isolated forest, Joaquin and his father, Ferds, hunt monsters for a living, but their latest catch forces them to confront unsettling truths, distorting their bond and warping their grip on reality.

As his wedding approaches, a young man begins hearing a mysterious rattling inside his head, forcing him to confront something within himself that refuses to stay silent.