Khavn
Directing
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.
Directed
Bomba Bernal
2025
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024
Much Ado About the Future
2024
Stanislavski's Gun
2024
Makbetamaximus: Theater of Destruction
2024
Love Is a Dog from Hell
2023
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
20239.5
Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik
2023
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
2023
Orphea
20214.0
How To Not Make A Film
2021
Gunam-Gunam x Guni-Guni
2021
KULOB34
20208.0
Mr. Duck-Egg
2020
Bamboo Dogs
20184.3
Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon
2018
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
20178.7
Aswang 1933
2017
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
20166.4
Simulacrum Tremendum
2016
Filipiniana
2016
Desaparadiso
20155.0
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
20146.3
Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro
2013
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
20128.0
Solar Syokoy
2012
Kalakala
2012
Breather
2011
Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao
2011
Kommander Kulas
2011
Mondomanila
20105.4
The Trial of Mr. Serapio
2010
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
20104.8
Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
20102.0
Son of God
2010
Our Daily Bread
2009
The Middle Mystery of Kristo Negro
2009
Literature
2009
Pamilya Kariton
2009
Namamasko Po
2009
Philippine Bliss
2008
Overdosed Nightmare
2008
Ultimo
2008
Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
20084.0
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
20084.0
Bahag Kings
2008
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
2008
Kristo
2007
Toxic Mango
2007
By The Suez Canal
2007
Squatterpunk
2007
The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One
20078.5
Three Days of Darkness
20072.0
The Longest Moment You're Not Here
2007
Buryong
2006
Goodbye My Shooting Star
2006
Vampire of Quezon City
20061.0
Old East Side
2006
Idol: Hero/Villain
2005
Can & Slippers
2005
The Family That Eats Soil
20055.5
Small Ali
2005
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
2005
Headless
20048.0
Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata
20048.5
Greaseman
2001
The Twelve
2000
Kamias: Memory of Forgetting
1999
Amen
1998
