Kidlat Tahimik Movies

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

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

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

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...

This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.

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

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,...

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 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 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...

Documentary about an oil spill near the Philippines

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

Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

A silent film by Jet Leyco.

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

A man plants trees around the world.

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...

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

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

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...