Khavn

Known for: Directing
Movies: 98

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.3

Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore

2014

5.4

Mondomanila

2010

6.4

Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember

2016

4.8

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement

2010

8.7

Balangiga: Howling Wilderness

2017

4.3

Bamboo Dogs

2018

5.5

The Family That Eats Soil

2005

8.0

EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek

2012

1.0

Vampire of Quezon City

2006

5.0

Desaparadiso

2015

Filmography

2026	Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod	Self
2025	Bomba Bernal	Self
2024	Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge	Father Agaton Damaso
2018	Happy Lamento	Self (archive footage)
2017	Shock Me Shokoy
2016	Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2014	Esoterica: Manila
2014	Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore	The Pianist
2011	Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2010	Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement	Himself
2008	Years When I Was a Child Outside
2008	Bahag Kings
2006	Goodbye My Shooting Star	K.
2005	Last Take, Last Shot
2005	The Family That Eats Soil	Dead Man on TV

Directing, Writing & Producing

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

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