Khavn
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.
82 directing credits · 15 acting credits
Directing · 82
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
2014
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Vampire of Quezon City
2006
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024
Bamboo Dogs
2018
Son of God
2010
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
2012
Three Days of Darkness
2007
Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay
2010
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023
The Twelve
2000
Desaparadiso
2015
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
2017
How To Not Make A Film
2021
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2016
Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro
2013
Goodbye My Shooting Star
2006
Squatterpunk
2007
Buryong
2006
Bahag Kings
2008
I Am The Drowning Sea
2009
The Family That Eats Soil
2005
Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
2008
Filipiniana
2016
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
2008
Kalakala
2012
Headless
2004
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
2021
The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO
2009
Idol: Hero/Villain
2005
The Devil of Comparisons
2022
Orphea
2021
Love Is a Dog from Hell
2023
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
2005
Breather
2011
KULOB34
2020
Stanislavski's Gun
2024
Dead Woman in My House
2007
The Longest Moment You're Not Here
2007
Makbetamaximus
2024
Bomba Bernal
2025
The Trial of Mr. Serapio
2010
Small Ali
2005
Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World
2006
Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata
2004
Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
2010
Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon
2018
Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik
2023
Ultimo
2008
The Last Gag of Buster Quizon
2007
Much Ado About the Future
2024
Kamias: Memory of Forgetting
1999
Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937
2022
This Is Not a Lost Film
2018
By The Suez Canal
2007
Can & Slippers
2005
Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore
2012
Amen
1998
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
2008
Kommander Kulas
2011
Overdosed Nightmare
2008
Memory of Dawn
1996
Barong Brothers
2003
1/4 Day In A Life
1997
Jollywood
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Rugby Boyz
2006
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
2023
Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao
2011
Pamilya Kariton
2009
Solar Syokoy
2012
Mr. Duck-Egg
2020
Namamasko Po
2009
Kristo
2007
Simulacrum Tremendum
2016
Literature
2009
Aswang 1933
2017
Toxic Mango
2007
The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One
2007
Our Daily Bread
2009
Greaseman
2001
Old East Side
2006
Philippine Bliss
2008
Acting · 15
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
2014
Esoterica: Manila
2014
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024
Last Take, Last Shot
2005
Years When I Was a Child Outside
2008
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2016
Goodbye My Shooting Star
2006
Bahag Kings
2008
The Family That Eats Soil
2005
Shock Me Shokoy
2017
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
2026
Bomba Bernal
2025
Happy Lamento
2018