Movies: Khavn

Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plot conventions in this paradoxically moral tale of a young man en route to becoming a creative artist....

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. Gruesome and grisly murders are our entry point into the psyche of the Asw...

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 documentary follows Hapon and his mates as they swagger around their dilapidated universe. Featuring a pu...

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. and Ana. A mix of music video, poetry reading, and offbeat romance – this is Khavn’s wildside romance....

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. It is at once dark, yet not unrelieved by poetry on the mysteries of life, exi...

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 Filipino, you might think he is following in the footsteps of Lav Diaz, but this is very different, more ex...

"Overdosed Nightmare" is Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" without the perfume, a pure nightmare set in wounded Manila, a close-up view of all that gangrene and pus. A gang of rat-munching, homophobic bums kill the night clumsily. Jesus H. Christ...

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....

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 a...

this is not a film by khavn...

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

The "prequel" to "Three Days Of Darkness" aka "Tatlong Araw Ng Kadiliman" starring Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, and Precious Adona. Khavn draws on the Book of Revelation for one of the most frightening phenomenon prophesied to happen. Three girls are t...

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 treasure....

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 chest: Someone has stolen his heart during the night. So along with his best and only friend, The Poor C...

Narrated by Katch23....

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

Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film is raw enough as it is. We follow Piling, a young soccer fanatic, through a slum district of Manila. ...

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 side of the story....

On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most venerated underground filmmaker. On the other, the Frankfurt School dialectics of Alexander Kluge, self-proclaimed arri...

A man goes on a thanking spree....