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.
As actor 15
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
2014
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
2026
The Family That Eats Soil
2005
Shock Me Shokoy
2017
Last Take, Last Shot
2005
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024
Bomba Bernal
2025
Esoterica: Manila
2014
Happy Lamento
2018
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2016
Goodbye My Shooting Star
2006
Bahag Kings
2008
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
Years When I Was a Child Outside
2008
On the crew 92
Breather
2011
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
2017
Headless
2004
Makbetamaximus
2024
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
2014
Filipiniana
2016
Simulacrum Tremendum
2016
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
2005
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
2021
The Family That Eats Soil
2005
KULOB34
2020
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
2012
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
2005
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024
By The Suez Canal
2007
Son of God
2010
Bomba Bernal
2025
Bamboo Dogs
2018
Skylab
2021
Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay
2010
Happy Lamento
2018
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
2023
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2016
Goodbye My Shooting Star
2006
Orphea
2021
Solar Syokoy
2012
Bahag Kings
2008
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Three Days of Darkness
2007
Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata
2004
Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao
2011
The Twelve
2000
Kommander Kulas
2011
2Bayani
2022
Squatterpunk
2007
Philippine Bliss
2008
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
2008
Love Is a Dog from Hell
2023
Todo Todo Teros
2006
Can & Slippers
2005
Jollywood
Years When I Was a Child Outside
2008
Literature
2009
Memory of Dawn
1996
Overdosed Nightmare
2008
Desaparadiso
2015
Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore
2012
The Devil of Comparisons
2022
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
2008
Old East Side
2006
Namamasko Po
2009
Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World
2006
Kalakala
2012
Kristo
2007
Kamias: Memory of Forgetting
1999
Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik
2023
Vampire of Quezon City
2006
Car Aircon Electrical Autocartoons
2025
Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro
2013
Rugby Boyz
2006
Zero
2011
Buryong
2006
Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon
2018
This Is Not a Lost Film
2018
Mr. Duck-Egg
2020
Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937
2022
The Trial of Mr. Serapio
2010
Ultimo
2008
The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One
2007
Barong Brothers
2003
Small Ali
2005
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
2008
Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
2010
Greaseman
2001
Aswang 1933
2017
How To Not Make A Film
2021
Pamilya Kariton
2009
I Am The Drowning Sea
2009
Dead Woman in My House
2007
The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO
2009
The Longest Moment You're Not Here
2007
The Last Gag of Buster Quizon
2007
1/4 Day In A Life
1997
Amen
1998
Toxic Mango
2007
Stanislavski's Gun
2024
Our Daily Bread
2009
An Exploration of Self: No Filter
2015
Idol: Hero/Villain
2005
Much Ado About the Future
2024