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
Last Take, Last Shot
2005
Shock Me Shokoy
2017
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Goodbye My Shooting Star
2006
Esoterica: Manila
2014
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2016
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024
Bomba Bernal
2025
Years When I Was a Child Outside
2008
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
Bahag Kings
2008
Happy Lamento
2018
On the crew 91
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
2014
Breather
2011
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
2021
Simulacrum Tremendum
2016
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
2005
Makbetamaximus
2024
KULOB34
2020
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
2012
Filipiniana
2016
Mondomanila: Kung paano ko inayos ang buhok ko matapos ang mahaba-haba ring paglalakbay
2010
Headless
2004
The Family That Eats Soil
2005
The Devil of Comparisons
2022
Son of God
2010
Mondomanila: Institusyon ng Makata
2004
Three Days of Darkness
2007
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
2017
Love Is a Dog from Hell
2023
Orphea
2021
Goodbye My Shooting Star
2006
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
2005
Bamboo Dogs
2018
Ultimo
2008
Skylab
2021
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
2016
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024
Todo Todo Teros
2006
Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore
2012
Bomba Bernal
2025
Desaparadiso
2015
Years When I Was a Child Outside
2008
The Twelve
2000
Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
2008
Can & Slippers
2005
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
2023
Kalakala
2012
Barong Brothers
2003
The Trial of Mr. Serapio
2010
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
Jollywood
How To Not Make A Film
2021
Pamilya Kariton
2009
Squatterpunk
2007
Cameroon Love Letter (For Solo Piano)
2010
Bahag Kings
2008
Rugby Boyz
2006
Happy Lamento
2018
Kommander Kulas: The One and Only Concert of the Amazing Kommander Kulas and His Poor Carabao
2011
The Profane And Senseless Passion Of Jesus Corazon Who, By The Disgrace Of God, Freezes The Heart Of The Loved One
2007
Vampire of Quezon City
2006
2Bayani
2022
Small Ali
2005
Kristo
2007
Idol: Hero/Villain
2005
Kamias: Memory of Forgetting
1999
Solar Syokoy
2012
Aswang 1933
2017
Overdosed Nightmare
2008
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
2023
Philippine Bliss
2008
Memory of Dawn
1996
Zero
2011
Our Daily Bread
2009
Amen
1998
I Am The Drowning Sea
2009
Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World
2006
Old East Side
2006
Much Ado About the Future
2024
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
2008
Mr. Duck-Egg
2020
Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937
2022
Namamasko Po
2009
Greaseman
2001
Misericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro
2013
This Is Not a Lost Film
2018
Buryong
2006
The Middle Mystery of KRISTO NEGRO
2009
Toxic Mango
2007
By The Suez Canal
2007
The Last Gag of Buster Quizon
2007
Kilabot: The Seditious Dreams of Nardong Putik
2023
Kommander Kulas
2011
1/4 Day In A Life
1997
Literature
2009
Car Aircon Electrical Autocartoons
2025
Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon
2018
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
2008
Dead Woman in My House
2007
Stanislavski's Gun
2024
The Longest Moment You're Not Here
2007