Khavn

A silent film by Jet Leyco.

A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.

A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty...

Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman. Before long, she falls...

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...

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plot conventions in this paradoxically moral tale of...

K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K....

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...

Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic...

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....

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....

The dark man crosses the purgatorial blight bearing his cargoes of sin, his blasted pilgrimage like some fever dream passion play, a primordial...

"The Twelve" is a pre-apocalyptic vision reminiscent in theme to Hal Hartley's 2000 As Seen By film "The Book Of Life". This feature-length...

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...

Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.

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...

Hapon is an 8-year-old survivor in the slums of modern Manila, scratching out an improvised existence at the margins of society. This rawly shot...

A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.

A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.

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. One...

Short film from by Khavn.

Short film from by Khavn.

A short documentary on how one family lives out each day to earn their daily bread. How one man's trash is literally transformed into this family's...

Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film...

Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film...

Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film...

Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film...

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...

These boys know the dual essence of rugby: playing football and sniffing solvent. They tell vampire jokes, rap about river deaths, and dive like...

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....

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...

Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities.

K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K....

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...

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...

a film by Khavn.

a film by Khavn.

Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror...

Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman. Before long, she falls...

Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman. Before long, she falls...

On his film Dodo wrote: “Whenever I’m asked what Zero is exactly, I tell them it’s a ghost story. Also, a love story. And how they...

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can’t go to the police for help or information. Many families were affected...

Even after burial Orphea wants to embrace her beloved Eurydike, deceased from food poisoning on January 22nd. She passionately descends into the...

In the Philippines, Lino Brocka is considered a national monument who waged a cinematic battle against corruption and oppression, directing over...

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...

I am the drowning sea. Waxing, waning, vanishing, surrendering, yearning, drunk, helpless against your indifference, with no way out. You are the...

I am the drowning sea. Waxing, waning, vanishing, surrendering, yearning, drunk, helpless against your indifference, with no way out. You are the...

Farewell, to all I love. To die is to rest, writes Jose Rizal, and where his poem ends, "Ultimo" begins. It is a black-and-white silent film, with...

Absurdist short comedy in the best camp and gore tradition. Little Ali has the handicap as a boxer that he keeps crying continually and...

Khavn is jack of all trades. In this case he brings an improvised homage to the great silent slapstick tradition. In the idiom of the silent film,...

Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.

The Devil of Comparisons (original title: El Demonio de las Comparaciones), was a 30-hour black & white silent film from 1929 by Narding Salome...

“Double, double, toil and trouble,” indeed! Shakespeare’s punchiest tragedy gets a makeover in a way that only the prodigious...

The filmmaker is fairly young, otherwise you could say this extremely long film is Khavn’s life's work. Because it is so long and the maker is...

"The Twelve" is a pre-apocalyptic vision reminiscent in theme to Hal Hartley's 2000 As Seen By film "The Book Of Life". This feature-length...

"The Twelve" is a pre-apocalyptic vision reminiscent in theme to Hal Hartley's 2000 As Seen By film "The Book Of Life". This feature-length...

What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can’t go to the police for help or information. Many families were affected...

A man goes on a thanking spree.

A man goes on a thanking spree.

Experimental feature film involving a car crash.

Experimental feature film involving a car crash.

An American gets killed by a Filipino. Early version of the later feature film.

An American gets killed by a Filipino. Early version of the later feature film.

The start of the film sets the tone. A tortured man looks as if he will castrate himself. Later he staggers aimlessly and bleeding heavily through...

The start of the film sets the tone. A tortured man looks as if he will castrate himself. Later he staggers aimlessly and bleeding heavily through...

Fast forwarding through Batang West Side.

Fast forwarding through Batang West Side.

Short superhero film.

Short superhero film.

Girls are hidden in a dark room.

Girls are hidden in a dark room.

Silent short.

Silent short.

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...

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...

A man follows a woman through the streets.

A man follows a woman through the streets.

A man fantasizes about horses and sleeps with a woman.

A man fantasizes about horses and sleeps with a woman.

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...

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...

A man reading on the street.

A man reading on the street.

Love letters from a relationship between Cameroon and the Philippines.

Love letters from a relationship between Cameroon and the Philippines.

Structural feature film about a burning piano.

Structural feature film about a burning piano.

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...

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...

Kommander Kulas wakes up several times and dreams that he is a giant cockroach. He wakes up for the last time and sees there are stitches on his...

a film by Khavn

this is not a film by khavn

This is not a film by khavn

The first film made in the Philippines to feature optically recorded sound was George Musser's Ang Aswang (The Vampire). In 1932, Musser imported...

In the Philippines, Lino Brocka is considered a national monument who waged a cinematic battle against corruption and oppression, directing over...

Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror...

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a...

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a...

A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty...

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....

Mondomanila tells the story of teenage anti-hero Tony de Guzman and the rough neighborhood he calls home.

The old Aguinaldo speaks from another time as he writes his memoirs of Bonifacio, the Katipunan, and the revolution. He has a strong urge to tell his...

K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K....

Eight days before Christmas, Typhoon Sendong ravaged a small city in the northern coastline of the Philippines, burying most of it in water. 8,128...

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a...

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a...

1901, Balangiga. Eight-year-old Kulas flees town with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill & Burn order. He finds a...

Juan Tamad embarks on a series of absurd adventures in this 'lost' Filipino film.

Khavn resurfaces the lost film 'Aswang.'

Hapon is an 8-year-old survivor in the slums of modern Manila, scratching out an improvised existence at the margins of society. This rawly shot...

An exhibition by Khavn feat. Babel Gun.

Chekhov's gun is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed....

Narrated by Katch23.

Kulob is everyone who believes in nothing

Kulob is everyone who believes in nothing

Kulob is everyone who believes in nothing

Kulob is everyone who believes in nothing

In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is...

'Kamias' weaves images of the artist's family and personal life with a strong, if not sad, narrative thread. In concise, poetic narration, Khavn...

A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty...

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.

This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.

A silent film by Jet Leyco.

This is not a short film by Khavn.

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

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...

"Overdosed Nightmare" is Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" without the perfume, a pure nightmare set in wounded Manila, a close-up view of all...

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

A reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is not a short film by Khavn.

K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their past leads to this new meeting between K....

To reimage, rewrite, and reread my country’s bastard history, using dismembered icons and scenographies that both affirm and negate remembered...

To reimage, rewrite, and reread my country’s bastard history, using dismembered icons and scenographies that both affirm and negate remembered...

Girls are hidden in a dark room.

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...

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...

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language...

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language...

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language...

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language...

The amazing adventures of Gunam-gunam (Rumi) and Guni-guni (Phantasm). Adapted from the book Auxiliary Materials for Teaching the Filipino Language...

A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. "Buryong" captures sixty-seconds-in-a-life, Philippine-time. From...

The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona. Khavn draws on the...

A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. "Buryong" captures sixty-seconds-in-a-life, Philippine-time. From...

A minute of a life. Bored to death. What is life? A series of moving stills. "Buryong" captures sixty-seconds-in-a-life, Philippine-time. From...

The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona. Khavn draws on the...

The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona. Khavn draws on the...

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...

"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the...

"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the...

"Philippine Bliss" tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the...

Who are you waiting for? How long have you been waiting? How much longer can you wait? In the calm after the storm comes the unbearable longing for...