Les Ambitieux

Kommander Kulas: The One... Mythological love story by Filipino multi-talent Khavn De La Cruz. Kommander Kulas has a restless night, in which he dreams that he is a giant cockroach. Upon waking, Kulas finds a number of stitches in his chest: his heart seems to have been stolen. With his destitute friend Carabao, Kulas sets off on an adventure that leads the two wandering souls all over the country in search of Kulas’ heart. On the way, they meet various mythological characters. As ever, De La Cruz - who has now made more than seventy short films and some thirty features - shot this film on video, but deviates from his typical experimental style, completely unaffected by film conventions. Kommander Kulas is more controlled than De La Cruz' previous films. Nevertheless, the absurdism the maker himself compares to the films of Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky is still present. The principal role is played by an itinerant piano.

Speaking Is Difficult Harrowing police scanner audios are set against placid landscapes in this urgent treatise on an American epidemic.

Cameroon Love Letter (Fo... Love letters from a relationship between Cameroon and the Philippines.

Mwen ber Sorrent...

Ultimo: Different Ways o... A tribute-cum-reformulation-in-film of Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal's poem "Mi Ultimo Adios," Khavn's "Ultimo: Different Ways of Killing a National Hero" explores identity and nationhood as viewed through the lens of a truly post-colonial individual. Ultimo is a 90-minute black-and-white silent film, with scenes from the director's meanderings in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) interspersed with lines from Rizal's poem, which was written a day before the hero's execution in 1896. Waiting, ambivalence, and re-membering —themes usually tackled in literature and criticism— are investigated through a series of images: the mundane elevated to the affective through a sensibility that does not shy away from pushing the boundaries of art. This version is scored by a post-kundiman duet of guitar and banduria.

Literature A man reading on the street.

Tomorrow Never Knows Tomorrow Never Knows is a psychedelic interpretation of a Beatles song.

The Muzzled Horse of an ... A man fantasizes about horses and sleeps with a woman.

Schatten der Helden

Manila in the Fangs of D... A man follows a woman through the streets.