Khavn
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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.
Movies
The Family That Eats Soil
A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil....
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Taon Noong Ako'y Anak sa Labas
Filmmaker John Torres describes his childhood and discusses his father's infidelities....
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Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without a mercy. But after a failed bank robber...
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Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the t...
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Last Take, Last Shot
A black comedy film, which focuses on two film workers, Raffy, the clapper, and Dido, a utility boy....
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Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement....
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Esoterica: Manila
Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plo...
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Paalam Aking Bulalakaw
K. loves Ana. But Ana’s now gone. Once she was there. But not anymore. A chance encounter from their...
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Bahag Kings
A post-silent film on the travails and camaraderie of King Black, King Red, King Blue, King Yellow, ...
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Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure o...
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Bomba Bernal
"This is not a film by Khavn". Bomba Bernal is the hardcore pornographic bomb handjobbed in the hidd...
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