“Hello, Love, Again,” which currently stands as the highest-grossing Filipino movie, was honored for its box office achievement at the 2025 Manila International Film Festival (MIFF) in Los Angeles, California.

The Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards-starrer bagged the Box Office Hit Award at the MIFF 2025 gala at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 7 (March 8 in the Philippines). Since its premiere in November 2024, the film earned P1.6 billion in box office sales.

The film, as well as Bernardo and Richards, was also praised by MIFF 2025 executive producer Lisa Lew in a November 2024 interview with INQUIRER.net, saying that “numbers count” in theaters.

“It shows you that there are people who deliver the numbers, and everybody should know that. When you see that kind of box office, it shows that our numbers count, and not all the numbers in passive counted, because not all the studios would count their numbers,” Lew said.

“It was a wonderful race. We’re not surprised. We know that because we live there. The rest of the country, in the US too, knows that our numbers are from the Philippines. So that really builds wealth in the future. And I think we’ll see a lot more in the future,” she further said.

Also honored at the gala was “Song of the Fireflies” which emerged as the biggest winner of the night with four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress.

Here is the full list of winners:

Best Actor: Seth Fedelin for “My Future You”

Best Supporting Actor: Noel Comia Jr. for “Song of the Fireflies”

Best Actress: Morissette Amon for “Song of the Fireflies”

Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Alejandro for “Song of the Fireflies”

Best Picture: “Song of the Fireflies”

Box Office Hit Award: “Hello, Love, Again”

Best Director: Crisanto B. Aquino for “My Future You”

Monty Manibog MIFF Lifetime Achievement Award: Mother Lily Monteverde

Lifetime Achievement Award:
Vilma Santos
Boots Anson-Rodrigo
Ricky Lee

The second edition of the MIFF, which ran from March 4 to 7, included the entries “The Kingdom,” “And the Breadwinner Is…,” “Green Bones,” “Isang Himala,” “Hold Me Close,” “My Future You,” “Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital,” “Espantaho,” “Topakk,” “Uninvited,” “Hello, Love, Again,” “Genghis Khan,” “Filipinos in America,” “The Debut,” “Nurse Unseen,” and “Song of the Fireflies.”