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Khavn, originally named Khavn de la Cruz, is a very outspoken, experimental filmmaker. He has directed over 100 films, making him one of the most productive filmmakers in the Philippines, and far beyond. He also heads up Kamias Overground, an independent publishing company, and works as a composer, songwriter, pianist and writer. Since 2002, he has been director of the .MOV International Film, Music & Literature Festival. As a jury member, he has been present at multiple festivals, including Berlinale and the Leipzig Film Festival.
Most Popular Khavn Trailers
Total trailers found: 95
01 January 2009
I am the drowning sea. Waxing, waning, vanishing, surrendering, yearning, drunk, helpless against your indifference, with no way out.
09 March 2021
This is a special performance by Khavn de la Cruz, performed and recorded during the first day of the online Film Pantun Workshop organised by SeaShorts Film Society.
01 January 2017
Khavn resurfaces the lost film 'Aswang.' The first film made in the Philippines to feature optically recorded sound was George Musser's Ang Aswang (The Vampire).
01 January 2009
this is not a film by khavn
28 January 2013
This travel-shockumentary-vampire fiction could well be a disguised ode to the Mondo films of Jacopetti, but with Khavn you never really know.
25 January 2003
Khavn is jack of all trades. In this case he brings an improvised homage to the great silent slapstick tradition.
08 September 2023
An exhibition by Khavn feat. Babel Gun.
01 January 1997
This is not a short film by Khavn.
26 November 2021
The year is 1979, the Skylab satellite is falling to Earth. In the days leading up to the crash, two troubled boys wait for doomsday, only to realize that darker forces are threatening them.
01 January 2005
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism.
27 May 2000
"The Twelve" is a pre-apocalyptic vision reminiscent in theme to Hal Hartley's 2000 As Seen By film "The Book Of Life".
01 April 2022
The old Aguinaldo speaks from another time as he writes his memoirs of Bonifacio, the Katipunan, and the revolution.
01 January 2006
Short superhero film.
01 January 2008
A tribute-cum-reformulation-in-film of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal's poem "Mi Ultimo Adios," Khavn's "Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero" explores identity and nationhood as viewed through the lens of a truly post-colonial individual.
11 February 2012
Short film from by Khavn.
01 January 1996
A diary film by Khavn.
01 January 2018
Juan Tamad embarks on a series of absurd adventures in this 'lost' Filipino film.
01 January 2009
A man reading on the street.
31 May 2024
Chekhov's gun is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.
01 January 2006
Fast forwarding through Batang West Side.
01 September 2007
Guima and Aras are star-crossed lovers in this sardonic tale of fruit and global genocide. One day, a black mango suddenly appears in Guima and Aras's tree.
01 January 2011
On his film Dodo wrote: “Whenever I’m asked what Zero is exactly, I tell them it’s a ghost story.
25 September 2022
The Devil of Comparisons (original title: El Demonio de las Comparaciones), was a 30-hour black & white silent film from 1929 by Narding Salome Exelsio (1883-1949).
01 January 2009
this is not a film by khavn
25 January 2024
“Double, double, toil and trouble,” indeed! Shakespeare’s punchiest tragedy gets a makeover in a way that only the prodigious Filipino multi-hyphenate Khavn De La Cruz could deliver.
31 May 2024
Narrated by Katch23.
24 October 2014
Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman.
01 January 2008
Farewell, to all I love. To die is to rest, writes Jose Rizal, and where his poem ends, "Ultimo" begins.
12 October 2023
Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible.
01 January 2010
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
01 January 2005
The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona.
22 January 2021
The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language by Kelly Sta.
26 January 2005
A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.
01 January 2010
The directors want to shoot a film about a man known as the son of god. But what starts out as a practical joke, extends to become a curious portrait of what could either be a petty fraud or the world’s most secret miracle.
01 January 2007
Girls are hidden in a dark room.
01 December 2012
EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another.
30 January 2016
The filmmaker is fairly young, otherwise you could say this extremely long film is Khavn’s life's work.
20 October 2017
1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order.
02 November 2023
Even after burial Orphea wants to embrace her beloved Eurydike, deceased from food poisoning on January 22nd.
30 January 2023
In the Philippines, Lino Brocka is considered a national monument who waged a cinematic battle against corruption and oppression, directing over sixty fiction features between 1970 and 1991, encompassing both lost works and non-political narratives and revealing a multifaceted legacy beyond the political realm, until his untimely death in a 1991 car accident.
13 July 2005
A black comedy film, which focuses on two film workers, Raffy, the clapper, and Dido, a utility boy. Both share the same dream: to direct their own films someday.
03 September 2011
A touching ode to Leonardo de la Cruz, the filmmaker's late father, who died earlier this year of lung cancer at the age of 65, the film is a personal meditation of sorts.
26 June 2024
In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is revisited in the light of early silent films.
18 August 2006
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one.
26 January 2015
What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can’t go to the police for help or information.
30 November 2010
Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.
01 January 2006
The Pinoy vampire - a bloodthirsty Aswang - stalks the streets of Quezon City in search of fresh victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of a dangerous human predator.
01 January 2008
A post-silent film on the travails and camaraderie of King Black, King Red, King Blue, King Yellow, King Green, King Purple, & King Orange, the seven rainbow [bahag-hari] kings [hari] of ethnic g-string [bahag] descent.
20 August 2008
Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.
01 January 2008
A man follows a woman through the streets.
13 April 2020
This is not a short film by Khavn.
01 January 2007
Silent short.
03 June 2011
A silent film by Jet Leyco.
28 August 2012
A merman is washed not ashore but into the heart of a bustling metro. Disoriented, he walks around and runs into several characters, all of them in the middle of their nightly grind.
10 March 2012
Eight days before Christmas, Typhoon Sendong ravaged a small city in the northern coastline of the Philippines, burying most of it in water.
01 January 2016
To reimage, rewrite, and reread my country’s bastard history, using dismembered icons and scenographies that both affirm and negate remembered mythology.
01 January 2007
An unedited blur of random images from a day in a life of Jesus Corazon, the serial rapist-killer of Manila who collects women's hearts in glass jars.
01 January 2010
Love letters from a relationship between Cameroon and the Philippines.
12 July 2005
Bayani S. Makapili is an ordinary guy who is a big fan of action movies, especially the ones starring Bida, the #1 action hero in the land.
