Kidlat Tahimik Movies

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,...

Kidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by Western society as a whole. When he moves to...

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...

Set in the remote mountains of the Philippines, First Light sees the death of a young construction worker force an elderly nun to confront the...

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

This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.

A silent film by Jet Leyco.

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by...

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

The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time,...

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

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

Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who...

Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Many years later, he continues to make...

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

Stuck in the German lands of “Yodelburg,” our hero Kidlat dreams of space and muses on humanity’s endless capacity for creativity,...

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.

Magellan, the famous navigator, met his untimely death in the Philippines before he could circumnavigate the globe. Ironically, it was his slave and...

Short film about the sons of the director.

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...