What Isn't There (2012)

Audience Choice Award and Best Original Score (New Breed) Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival 2012. Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child. Now twenty years old, he returns home to Manila from his studies abroad, his first visit in three years. While Christmas is always festive in the Philippines, for his family, it is tinged with sadness, marking as it does yet another anniversary of the accidental death of his identical twin brother. Against the backdrop of the vibrant local music scene, his childhood best friend tries to reconnect with him, while he unexpectedly finds a chance at a first, real romantic relationship. Amidst the holidays, Gibson reconsiders and redefines his relationship with his family, with himself, even with his dead brother: the only person he talks to.