The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
star 7.3
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with o...
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Directing
Kidlat Tahimik
Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik (a Tagalog translation of "silent lightning"), is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinemamovement through their critiques of neocolonialism. One of the most prominent names in the Filipino film industry, he has garnered various accolades locally and internationally, including a Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema. He is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the "Father of Philippine Independent Cinema".
Filmography
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Perfumed Nightmare
1979
star 7.3
Kidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by Western soc...
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
star 4.8
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
José Rizal
1998
star 9.0
Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Lu...
I am Blushing
1981
star 9.0
"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movi...
Cinemartyrs
2025
A young filmmaker is bent on recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, but when she begins shooti...
A Movie Capital
1991
star 6.0
This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various wa...
First Light
2026
An elderly nun witnesses a young construction worker's fatal accident, compelling her to question the ethical p...
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979
star 7.5
Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s endless capac...
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996
star 8.0
Kidlat Tahimik, a director and performer, sought to recreate relations between the body and filmed image seen t...
Bulakna
2025
An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women:...
A Man Who Became Cinema
2018
Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Man...
Lucid
2023
A national artist delivers a powerful message urging us to embrace and celebrate our cultural heritage, highlig...
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
A silent film by Jet Leyco.
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017
As the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, avant-gardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle on anythin...
Shaman Wars
1982
Three powerful shamans fight it out in a series of bizarre encounters over an a-go-go dancer. Their final encou...
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015
Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the gl...
Ode to Dreamers
2015
A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering...
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
A documentary film by filmmaker couple Egay Navarro and Rica Concepcion. It focuses on the life of Baguio artis...