Directing

Khavn

Biography

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 Makbetamaximus 2024 Much Ado About the Future 2024 Stanislavski's Gun 2024 Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge 2024 Love Is a Dog from Hell 2023 National Anarchist: Lino Brocka 2023 Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) 2023 Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik 2023 The Devil of Comparisons 2022 Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937 2022 How To Not Make A Film 2021 Orphea 2021 Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni 2021 KULOB34 2020 Mr. Duck-Egg 2020 Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon 2018 Bamboo Dogs 2018 This Is Not a Lost Film 2018 Balangiga: Howling Wilderness 2017 Aswang 1933 2017 Simulacrum Tremendum 2016 Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember 2016 Filipiniana 2016 Desaparadiso 2015 Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore 2014 Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro 2013 Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore 2012 Solar Syokoy 2012 EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek 2012 Kalakala 2012 Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao 2011 Kommander Kulas 2011 Breather 2011 Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay 2010 The Trial of Mr. Serapio 2010 Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement 2010 Son of God 2010 Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano) 2010 The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO 2009 Our Daily Bread 2009 I Am The Drowning Sea 2009 Literature 2009 Pamilya Kariton 2009 Namamasko Po 2009 Ultimo 2008 Manila in the Fangs of Darkness 2008 The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles 2008 Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero 2008 Bahag Kings 2008 Overdosed Nightmare 2008 Philippine Bliss 2008 The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One 2007 Squatterpunk 2007 The Last Gag of Buster Quizon 2007 Three Days of Darkness 2007 Dead Woman in My House 2007 The Longest Moment You're Not Here 2007 Toxic Mango 2007 By The Suez Canal 2007 Kristo 2007 Vampire of Quezon City 2006 Rugby Boyz 2006 Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World 2006 Old East Side 2006 Goodbye My Shooting Star 2006 Buryong 2006 The Family That Eats Soil 2005 Idol: Hero/Villain 2005 Can & Slippers 2005 Small Ali 2005 Three Days Of Darkness Zero 2005 Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata 2004 Headless 2004 Barong Brothers 2003 Greaseman 2001 The Twelve 2000 Kamias: Memory of Forgetting 1999 Amen 1998 1/4 Day In A Life 1997 Memory of Dawn 1996
Acting
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod Self 2026 Shock Me Shokoy 2017 Esoterica: Manila 2014 Last Take, Last Shot 2005
Other Credits
Car Aircon Electrical Autocartoons Music 2025 2Bayani Original Music Composer 2022 Skylab Music 2021 Happy Lamento Music 2018 Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism Producer 2011 Zero Music 2011 Years When I Was a Child Outside Music 2008 Todo Todo Teros Music 2006 A Short Film About the Indio Nacional Music 2005
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