Synopsis : Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. He uses religion and violence to stay in power. What superstition and razzle dazzle don’t accomplish, his goons do. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman, who is headstrong and impulsive, and often gets into trouble. Before long, she falls in love with the henchman, and the star-crossed lovers decide to leave town. Fighting ensues. It is while on the run that they finally get to know each other for the first time…

1.21GB | 1h 10mn | 720×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1EBC4D6AB3870C7/Ruined_Heart_-_Another_Lovestory_Between_a_Criminal_&_a_Whore.mkv

Language:No dialog, but music keeps going on
Subtitles:English,French

The post Khavn – Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore AKA Pusong wasak: Isa na namang kwento ng pag-ibig sa pagitan ng kriminal at puta (2014) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
One of the best films of 2005. — Paolo Bertolin

In the extraordinary film “IDOL”, all aspirations are stunted and all beyonds are ludicrous. The brilliant farce that is “IDOL” is so profoundly pathetic, it is hilarious. Indeed it is so unusual, provocative and at times shattering that a new aesthetic category might be required here. In “IDOL”, Khavn has hit upon a method adequate to the full-of-shitness of the world and a new modality for realism. — Jonathan Beller

581MB | 1h 22m | 858×480 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/56015B884FA65F3/IDOL.Bida.Kontrabida.2005.480p.HC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-RSG.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/ba105da3ea6ba/IDOL.Bida.Kontrabida.2005.480p.HC.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-RSG.mkv

Language:Tagalog
Subtitles:English hardcodedh

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A joyfully outrageous slice of life in the slums set to a punky soundtrack, Mondomanila is a slap in the face of Western expectations of politely miserabilist depictions of the downtrodden. A hyper kinetic, super stylised wild carnival of the destitute, it follows a midget, a one-armed rapper, a ‘day-glo fairy’, a disabled pimp and their friends as they try to get as much sex and drugs as they can (‘the only solution to their problems’, we are told by main character Tony at the beginning) and tackle a racist white paedophile. A toothless showman opens this exuberant bad taste spectacle, promising something horrible and creepy, but the Mondo-style shockumentary aspect is underpinned by the crude reality of life in Manila, making the film vital and energising.

752MB | 1h 52m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/928A23CF084C424/Mondomanila.2010.720p.WEB.x264.AAC.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/0cdf6d3ece224/Mondomanila.2010.720p.WEB.x264.AAC.mp4

Language:Filipino
Subtitles:English hardsubs

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The Family that Eats Soil is a very outspoken experimental film maker with a prolific rate of production and an uninhibited lust to investigate and cross all frontiers. This film also displays clear traces of furious improvisations and a nonchalant provocative manner. In Filipino society, the family is holy, like the earth, because the society is basically still agrarian. In the bizarre and surrealistic world of The Family That Eats Soil, a strange and dysfunctional family sits down three times a day to a meal of soil. Outside the meal times, the individual family members experience extravagant adventures. A summary of several characters is telling: Baby escapes from his crib to a cockfighting arena, Sister is a nymphomaniac prostitute, Brother beats someone’s skull in, Father has mixed up a potion of poison that he wants to give children in hospital, Mother is a clever drug dealer and media personality and Grandpa is really already dead.This absurdist demonstration of insanity and spluttering violence is clearly related to the tradition of underground, splatter, gore and cult, but there is more to it for the director. For instance, he’s interested in tackling the issue of ubiquitous violence in the history of the Philippines that in fact continues into the present day. In this film, all traditional values are turned upside down and sent in the wrong direction. And with verve.

Extras:
1. How to Eat Soil in 3 and 1/2 Days
2. Q&A Interview: Talk with Khavn
3. Can & Slippers (2004)
4. Making of Claymation

1.60GB | 1h 15m | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/A08C4ED84CD4829/Ang.Pamilyang.Kumakain.ng.Lupa.2005.DVDRip.x264.AC3.DLB-KG.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/382C377B8DD897B/Ang.P_Extras.rar

or
https://tezfiles.com/file/b2c0401f772a9/Ang.Pamilyang.Kumakain.ng.Lupa.2005.DVDRip.x264.AC3.DLB-KG.mp4
https://tezfiles.com/file/6b70bb4a6f9c5/Ang.P_Extras.rar

Language:Filipino
Subtitles:English Hardsubs

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Filmless Films presents
SQUATTERPUNK
This is not a film by Khavn.

An ode to joy amidst poverty, SQUATTERPUNK is the pre-Spanish
Philippine part of Khavn’s “Black Silence Trilogy.” Set in the slums
of Manila, we follow the lives of the youth as they scavenge the
garbage beach for a living while still managing to play around.

REVIEWS
The best social realist documentary in the Philippines, SQUATTERPUNK is a daring & adventurous film shot in the kind of slum neighbourhood where police protection is rare. The film, energetic and funny in a place that is supposed to be depressing, does not exactly fit into the social awareness approach of a direct cinema documentary. The score of the film is loud if not deafening. And not in vogue.

Director Khavn, the enfant terrible of Filipino cinema, brings us back to the Ôno futureÕ eighties of authentic anarchic punk. But it is consistent in its style of black-and-white images and its rhythmic montage that is clearly driven by the music-based sound track. Compared to the ironic collage way of working in most of KhavnÕs other films, this one is crystal clear if not neat. Well, only in comparison with his other sometimes exuberant experiments. By any other standard, it is a wild and pulsating film.

SQUATTERPUNK shows something of life in the slums in a quite special way. It shows how poor, forgotten and ignored children can have a good time. Playing & swimming in rotting garbage can apparently be fun. So it is not the clichŽ image of tears in a childÕs eyes that makes us aware of this disgraceful situation but the vitality and pleasure of the protagonists. In addition, maybe even stronger than pity, this pleasure enforces the inevitable message: no future. (Gertjan Zuilhof, Rotterdam International Film Festival)

Rambunctious & relentless, Khavn’s aptly titled “Squatterpunk” applies pure adrenaline rush to a day in the life of a Manila shanty town. A bit less harried than many of this wildly active filmmaker-musician’s other features and shorts, docu marries a constantly roving camera (often mounted with ultra-wide-angle lens) with a nonstop punk-rock soundtrack that fuels the action with bursts of aural energy. Terrific fest fare will widen Khavn’s growing fan base (especially among young Asian hipsters), and looks to be a solid specialist vid item.

Center of the pic is young Hapon, leader of a gaggle of youngsters in the desperately poor seaside slum of Isla Puting Bato (with Manila visible in the distance). Kids will be kids: Running, scampering, diving into filthy ocean water, the tykes manage to turn their direly poor surroundings into the world’s most unlikely playground.

Pic turns several conventional notions on their heads, not least of which is standard liberal ideology, expressed in countless docs, that expresses hand-wringing pity toward the poor. Khavn (nickname for Khavn de la Cruz) appears to reject this, kids in these circumstances as they actually are, with endless energy & nerve. This may offend some viewers demanding a more PC line, just as others may not appreciate the driving punk sounds of the Brockas (named in honor of late Filipino film master Lino Brocka).

Latter reference is telling, since the community here is exactly the sort of setting in which Brocka frequently located his complex melodramas. Khavn tips his cap to his mentor while adopting a freewheeling approach that does away with storyline, dialogue and almost any natural sound. Precendent here is actually in the earliest pre-20th-century experimental silent pics that linked motion-filled images with music, and the tradition of the “city symphony” film.

Pacing (via editing by Lawrence Ang, Caloy Carlos & Sunshine Matutina) is breathless, but with enough pauses and quiet passages to vary mood and texture. Albert Banzon’s intensely physical camerawork suggests the lens is like a small kid, dashing close to the ground and taking everything in.

Remarkably, lensing was done in a single day. As usual, to ironically stress his championing of latest in digital vid cinema, opening credits announce “This is Not a Film by Khavn.” (Robert Koehler, Variety)

Tweaking the poverty documentaries omnipresent in festival circles, SQUATTERPUNK turns its camera on a group of children living in a squalid Manila slum. Unlike most poverty documentaries, the film is less concerned (or not concerned at all, actually) with making any points about the hopelessness of their condition, but instead follows the kids as they play and walk around like little tough guys, complete with Mohawks and a fuck-you attitude. (Jason Sanders, Filmmaker Magazine & Cinemascope Magazine)

SQUATTERPUNK wants it viewers to be prepared for a feature-length music video quite unlike anything MTV is likely to broadcast. Shot in black-and-white to relentless punk rock energy, its “stars” are squatter kids living off the waste of Manila. Diving into dark waters teeming with refuse and scavenging for food, the nameless next generation still make time to shave their heads Mohawk style and bang madly on makeshift drums or strum beaten up guitars. (Philip Cheah, Singapore International Film Festival)

A rollicking ride into the depths of poverty-inspired despair, with that distinctly Philippine sense of hope, rising above the regular smell of garbage, swinging and slamming with joyous riot music. This is Khavn returning to the bare, essential, and simply punk. (Joel Toledo, Bridport Prize Winner for Poetry)

Despite the crude, violent, exploitative connotations of its title, SQUATTERPUNK casts a tenderly poetic eye at the squalor of Philippine society. (Lourd De Veyra, Palanca Awardee for Essay)

Pinoy Punk Rock is the music that reflects the lively and chaotic world of the urban poor in an independent masterpiece titled SQUATTERPUNK by the internationally award-winning director Khavn. (Jude Bautista, Manila Times)

701MB | 01:19:05 | 720 x 384 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/72A4D28D06C85AA/ISKWATERPANGK.divx

Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

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Synopsis
A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the dangerous game comes to an end with twenty years of imprisonment. After two decades, they are released but soon begin to disappear one by one.

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A feeling of apocalyptic, psychedelic chaos invades any viewer of Khavn’s dazzling and provocative work. The double bill continues with Kvahn further pushing the boundaries of cinema with Alipato, a spirited, futuristic vision of Manila, which might very well have you rethink what a film can be.

http://nitroflare.com/view/4C1249903E449FC/Alipato.-.The.Very.Brief.Life.of.an.Ember.2016.720p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/F15550AB2E9F5FB/Alipato.-.The.Very.Brief.Life.of.an.Ember.2016.720p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.part2.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/F4CA0DAF1EC5680/Alipato.-.The.Very.Brief.Life.of.an.Ember.2016.720p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.part3.rar

Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:English

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Plot Summary:
One day, they just disappeared. Just like that. One didn’t go to work, one didn’t go to his appointment, didn’t meet his date. The dishes served were left to rot, and the bed remained immaculate; the sheets unruffled and unslept in. One cannot say if they are alive or dead. And for this reason, there is no funeral, no nine-day wake, no mass, no burning of candles, or recitation of litanies for the dead. Because they are not dead (or maybe there are), and who is to know what has become of them?
What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can’t go to the police for help or information. Many families were affected in this way by the cruelty of the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986). The film shows one of them as an example of paradise lost.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/6B32EB7958AB686/Desaparadiso.mkv

Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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