Todo Todo Teros
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as...
See moreNitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror...
See moreKamias: Memory of Forgetting
'Kamias' weaves images of the artist's family and personal life with a strong, if not sad, narrative thread. In concise, poetic narration, Khavn...
See moreAswang
The first film made in the Philippines to feature optically recorded sound was George Musser's Ang Aswang (The Vampire). In 1932, Musser imported...
See moreSquatterpunk
Hapon is an 8-year-old survivor in the slums of modern Manila, scratching out an improvised existence at the margins of society. This rawly shot...
See moreA Short Film About the Indio Nacional
What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of...
See moreThe Trial of Mr. Serapio
a film by Khavn.
See moreMakbetamaximus
“Double, double, toil and trouble,” indeed! Shakespeare’s punchiest tragedy gets a makeover in a way that only the prodigious Filipino...
See moreBamboo Dogs
This is not a film by Khavn. A crime-thriller retro-road movie based on the Kuratong Baleleng Rubout Massacre of 1995.
See moreEDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
EDSA XXX takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another. The...
See moreLove Is a Dog from Hell
Even after burial Orphea wants to embrace her beloved Eurydike, deceased from food poisoning on January 22nd. She passionately descends into the...
See moreNational Anarchist: Lino Brocka
In the Philippines, Lino Brocka is considered a national monument who waged a cinematic battle against corruption and oppression, directing over...
See moreThe Family That Eats Soil
A strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil.
See moreThree Days of Darkness
Girls are hidden in a dark room.
See moreThe Longest Moment You're Not Here
Who are you waiting for? How long have you been waiting? How much longer can you wait? In the calm after the storm comes the unbearable longing for...
See moreSolar Syokoy
A merman is washed not ashore but into the heart of a bustling metro. Disoriented, he walks around and runs into several characters, all of them in...
See moreHeadless
The start of the film sets the tone. A tortured man looks as if he will castrate himself. Later he staggers aimlessly and bleeding heavily through...
See moreBahag Kings
A post-silent film on the travails and camaraderie of King Black, King Red, King Blue, King Yellow, King Green, King Purple, & King Orange, the...
See moreMisericordia: The Last Mystery of Kristo Vampiro
Can & Slippers
Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the...
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