LAPIS | SDO Dumaguete City | DepEd NIR | PEACE Short Film Festival 2026

In a quiet classroom, a pencil passes from hand to hand—light, ordinary, easily ignored. Yet within its silent journey, something unseen begins to surface. A gaze that lingers too long. A laughter that sounds too loud. A silence that says too much. Three lives brush against one another, each carrying a truth they cannot quite speak. What seems small begins to fracture, revealing the weight beneath simple moments—the kind we dismiss, the kind we misunderstand. Until something breaks. Lapis is a story of what is left unsaid, of lines drawn too quickly, and of the quiet choice to erase... or to rewrite.