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Paalam Aking Bulalakaw = Goodbye My Shooting Star
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973-; performed by Nella Sarabia, fl. 2006, Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- and Meryll Soriano, 1982- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 23 mins
K. loves Ana. Then Ana went missing. But now she's back. And so is K. The walk through the old school. The strange encounters. The eye doctor. The rekindled memories. Chance? Or design? What we talk about when we talk about love are the things unsaid. The words that fail. The love songs in your head. The poetry be...
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973-; performed by Nella Sarabia, fl. 2006, Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- and Meryll Soriano, 1982- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 23 mins
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Philippine Bliss
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973-; performed by Neil Elpusan, fl. 2008, Menk Cruzat, fl. 2008 and Therese Carlos, fl. 2007 (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 20 mins
'Philippine Bliss' tells the tale of six modern-day Filipinos living in a single neighborhood, a housing project called B.L.I.S.S., started by the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law era. These people, whose names allude to familiar characters from Jose Rizal's novels, narrate their...
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973-; performed by Neil Elpusan, fl. 2008, Menk Cruzat, fl. 2008 and Therese Carlos, fl. 2007 (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 20 mins
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Squatter Punk
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 19 mins
Set in the slums of Manila where law enforcement is rare, Squatterpunk chronicles the punk lifestyles of the youth as they scavenge the garbage beach for a living while still managing to play around. A film that casts a tenderly poetic eye at the squalor of Manila.
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 19 mins
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Three Days of Darkness
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973-; performed by Precious Adona, fl. 2007-2008, Katya Santos, 1982- and Gwen Garci, fl. 1998-2011 (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 18 mins
'So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.' In Khavn De La Cruz's horror pastiche, the Apocalypse has hit three beautiful young women in the form of a power blackout in a haunted house in Manila. Michiko, who is half Japanese and can't live without her c...
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973-; performed by Precious Adona, fl. 2007-2008, Katya Santos, 1982- and Gwen Garci, fl. 1998-2011 (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 18 mins
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The Trial of Mr. Serapio
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 13 mins
Khavn De La Cruz is a filmmaker, rock musician, poet and producer, the enfant terrible of low-budget (or no-budget) filmless films in the Philippines. The digital guerrilla turns his subversive gaze to the first Filipino postmodern play, 'The Trial of Mr. Serapio,' written in 1969 by Paul Dumont. An old beggar is...
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 13 mins
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The Twelve
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (United States: Privately Published, 2001), 1 hour 41 mins
In utilizing mixed genres, 'The Twelve' tells the story of the Apostles' reincarnations awaiting the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the century. Deftly structured into drinking scenes and musical vignettes, the film transports us into a tragicomic world of film noir, sci-fi, melodrama, adventure, satire, an...
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (United States: Privately Published, 2001), 1 hour 41 mins
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Ultimo
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 25 mins
Farewell, to all I love. To die is to rest, writes Jose Rizal, and where his poem ends, "Ultimo" begins. It is a black-and-white silent film, with scenes from the director's meanderings in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) inspired by Rizal's poem, which was written a day before the hero's execution in 1896. It exp...
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 25 mins
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Vampire of Quezon City
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directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 5 mins
A serial killer is raping and murdering the most beautiful young women of Quezon City, and the detectives in this vampiro-porno-noir despair of capturing him. In flashbacks, we learn of his mother's beatings and his own cruelties to dogs. He seems like a classic psychopath, and yet when the detectives learn that...
directed by Khavn De La Cruz, 1973- (Philippines: Privately Published), 1 hour 5 mins
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