Khavn
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Khavn
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.
Known For
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Ang kaisa-isang konsiyerto ng kagila-gilalas na kombo ni Kumander Kulas at ng kanyang kawawang kalabaw sa walang katapusang kalsada ng Kamyas
Son of God
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
Acting
(2024)
Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
as Father Agaton Damaso
(2017)
(2016)
(2014)
(2014)
(2011)
(2010)
(2008)
(2008)
(2006)
(2005)
The Family That Eats Soil
as Dead Man on TV
(2005)
Crew
Aswang
Director
(2025)
Bomba Bernal
Director, Editor
(2025)
(2024)
Makbetamaximus
Director
(2024)
Much Ado About the Future
Director
(2024)
Stanislavski's Gun
Director
(2024)
Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
Director, Producer, Music
(2023)
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Translator, Director
(2023)
Love Is a Dog from Hell
Director
(2023)
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
Producer, Director
(2023)
(2022)
The Devil of Comparisons
Director
(2022)
2Bayani
Original Music Composer
(2022)
Kluge‘s 5th Birthday, 1937
Director
(2021)
How To Not Make A Film
Cinematography, Director
(2021)
Skylab
Music
(2021)
Orphea
Director, Writer, Music, Executive Producer
(2021)
Gunam- Gunam X Guni Guni
Writer, Director, Producer, Music, Cinematography
(2020)
KULOB34
Director, Producer, Cinematography, Writer
(2020)
Mr. Duck-Egg
Director
(2018)
Juan Tamad Goes to the Moon
Director
(2018)
Happy Lamento
Screenplay, Music
(2018)
Bamboo Dogs
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Original Music Composer, Production Design
(2018)
This Is Not a Lost Film
Director
(2017)
Balangiga: Howling Wilderness
Story, Screenplay, Music, Director, Producer
(2017)
Aswang 1933
Director, Editor, Sound Designer
(2016)
Simulacrum Tremendum
Director
(2016)
Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
Director, Writer
(2016)
Filipiniana
Director, Writer
(2015)
Desaparadiso
Director, Writer
(2014)
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore
Director, Screenplay
(2013)
(2012)
EDSA XXX: Nothing Ever Changes in the Ever-Changing Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek
Music, Producer, Director, Writer
(2012)
Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore
Writer, Director
(2012)
Solar Syokoy
Director
(2012)
Kalakala
Director
(2011)
Zero
Music
(2011)
(2011)
Kommander Kulas
Director
(2011)
(2011)
Breather
Producer, Cinematography, Writer, Director
(2010)
Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey
Music, 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)
(2009)
Our Daily Bread
Director
(2009)
I Am The Drowning Sea
Music, Director
(2009)
Literature
Writer, Director
(2009)
Pamilya Kariton
Director
(2009)
Namamasko Po
Director
(2008)
(2008)
Ultimo
Director
(2008)
The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles
Writer, Director
(2008)
Manila in the Fangs of Darkness
Director, Writer
(2008)
Bahag Kings
Director, Writer
(2008)
Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero
Writer, Director, Producer
(2008)
Overdosed Nightmare
Director
(2008)
Philippine Bliss
Director, Producer, Writer
(2007)
(2007)
Squatterpunk
Director, Writer
(2007)
Three Days of Darkness
Writer, Director, Music
(2007)
The Last Gag of Buster Quizon
Director, Writer
(2007)
Dead Woman in My House
Director
(2007)
(2007)
Toxic Mango
Director
(2006)
Vampire of Quezon City
Director, Screenplay, Producer
(2006)
Rugby Boyz
Director
(2006)
Todo Todo Teros
Music
(2006)
Goodbye My Shooting Star
Music, Writer, Director
(2006)
Open Letter to All the Terrorists in the World
Writer, Director
(2006)
Old East Side
Director, Writer
(2006)
Buryong
Director, Writer, Editor
(2005)
(2005)
The Family That Eats Soil
Director, Writer
(2005)
Idol: Hero/Villain
Director
(2005)
Can & Slippers
Director, Music, Writer, Producer
(2005)
Small Ali
Director
(2005)
Three Days Of Darkness Zero
Director, Writer, Editor
(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