Baryoke

Winner of Best Cinematography in the 2005 Cinemalaya. Four diverse barrio women whose sole sililarity is their individual repression find salvation and self-worth through the town's "Baryoke" (barrio karaoke). Lea is an orphan working as a maid in a nearby town, forced to swallow the daily humiliation from her employer. Perlas is a bored and sexually stagnate wife wanting to leave her husband but does not have the courage to do so. Joan is a young prostitute on the verge of exposing the town priest as her most persistent client. Diana is a public school teacher who turned catatonic upon the death of her husband and children. They find their lives begin to intertwine in the videoke and there find courage to stand up for themselves, sing and be free and consequently overcome their repressions and fears. (Regal Entertainment)