Person
Khavn
Directing
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.
Known for
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
Producer
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
Self
Makbetamaximus
Director
Simulacrum Tremendum
Director
The Family That Eats Soil
Dead Man on TV
Three Days of Darkness
Director
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
The Pianist
Love Is a Dog from Hell
Director
Headless
Director
Filipiniana
Director
Filmography
- 2026Die Liebe stört der kalte TodSelf
- 2025Car Aircon Electrical AutocartoonsMusic
- 2025Bomba BernalSelf
- 2024Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of RevengeFather Agaton Damaso
- 2024Stanislavski's GunDirector
- 2024Much Ado About the FutureDirector
- 2024MakbetamaximusDirector
- 2023Love Is a Dog from HellDirector
- 2023Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)Translator
- 2023Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong PutikDirector
- 2023National Anarchist: Lino BrockaProducer
- 2022The Devil of ComparisonsDirector
- 20222BayaniOriginal Music Composer
- 2022Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937Director
- 2021SkylabMusic
- 2021OrpheaDirector
- 2021How To Not Make A FilmDirector
- 2021Gunam- Gunam X Guni GuniProducer
- 2020KULOB34Director
- 2020Mr. Duck-EggDirector
- 2018Bamboo DogsDirector
- 2018Happy LamentoSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Juan Tamad Goes to the MoonDirector
- 2018This Is Not a Lost FilmDirector
- 2017Shock Me Shokoy
- 2017Balangiga: Howling WildernessScreenplay
- 2017Aswang 1933Director
- 2016Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
- 2016Simulacrum TremendumDirector
- 2016FilipinianaDirector
- 2015DesaparadisoDirector
- 2014Esoterica: Manila
- 2014Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a WhoreThe Pianist
- 2013Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo VampiroDirector
- 2012EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-EkProducer
- 2012Solar SyokoyDirector
- 2012KalakalaDirector
- 2012Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a WhoreDirector
- 2011BreatherDirector
- 2011Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
- 2011ZeroMusic
- 2011Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor CarabaoDirector
- 2011Kommander KulasDirector
- 2010Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbayMusic
- 2010The Trial of Mr. SerapioDirector
- 2010Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film MovementHimself
- 2010Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)Director
- 2010Son of GodDirector
- 2009Our Daily BreadDirector
- 2009The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRODirector
- 2009I Am The Drowning SeaDirector
- 2009LiteratureDirector
- 2009Pamilya KaritonDirector
- 2009Namamasko PoDirector
- 2008Years When I Was a Child Outside
- 2008Philippine BlissDirector
- 2008Overdosed NightmareDirector
- 2008Bahag Kings
- 2008UltimoDirector
- 2008Manila in the Fangs of DarknessDirector
- 2008The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical SaddlesDirector
- 2008Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National HeroDirector
- 2007KristoDirector
- 2007Toxic MangoDirector
- 2007By The Suez CanalDirector
- 2007Dead Woman in My HouseDirector
- 2007SquatterpunkDirector
- 2007The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved OneDirector
- 2007Three Days of DarknessDirector
- 2007The Last Gag of Buster QuizonDirector
- 2007The Longest Moment You're Not HereDirector
- 2006BuryongDirector
- 2006Todo Todo TerosMusic
- 2006Goodbye My Shooting StarK.
- 2006Rugby BoyzDirector
- 2006Vampire of Quezon CityDirector
- 2006Old East SideDirector
- 2006Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the WorldDirector
- 2005Last Take, Last Shot
- 2005Idol: Hero/VillainDirector
- 2005Can & SlippersDirector
- 2005The Family That Eats SoilDead Man on TV
- 2005Small AliDirector
- 2005A Short Film About the Indio NacionalMusic
- 2005Three Days Of Darkness ZeroDirector
- 2004Mondomanila: Institusyon ng MakataDirector
- 2004HeadlessDirector
- 2003Barong BrothersDirector
- 2001GreasemanDirector
- 2000The TwelveDirector
- 1999Kamias: Memory of ForgettingDirector
- 1998AmenDirector
- 19971/4 Day In A LifeDirector
- 1996Memory of DawnDirector
- —JollywoodDirector
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