Kidlat Tahimik Movies

The film illustrates the philosophy of “giving back” to nature, and documents the pinugo, the unique system of sustainable land...

Accused of treason, Dr. Jose P. Rizal awaits trial and meets with his colonial government-appointed counsel, Luis Taviel de Andrade. The two build...

As the ultimate enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, avant-gardist Kidlat Tahimik refuses to settle on anything, whether it’s the telling of a...

Produced over 15 years for the JVC-sponsored Tokyo Video Festival, Tahimik’s Video Diaries offers a lovely set of accents to his longer 16mm...

Kidlat Tahimik’s son, Kabunyan de Guia, embarks on a journey from his hometown of Baguio to the southern urban city of Davao using an orange...

An elderly nun witnesses a young construction worker's fatal accident, compelling her to question the ethical principles of the institution she has...

An unexploded bomb that the Americans dropped in the Philippines in their war against the Japanese was found in a river. It was transformed into a...

Essay film about rice farming and Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

An observation of post-colonial economic relations through the intersecting trajectories of two Filipino women: one preparing to leave her native...

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

A young filmmaker is bent on recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, but when she begins shooting at a site where 1,000 men, women,...

A Filipino slave travels around the world. An early version of the story Tahimik used for Balikbayan.

A machine capable of recording ideas directly from the mind is invented, and an out-of-work comedian suffering from depression uses it to learn if he...

A silent film by Jet Leyco.

"I am blushing" - Swedish comedy about a film crew traveling to the Philippines to find environments for a movie.

This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.