Kidlat Tahimik Movies

Documentary about the working poor in Hongkong.

Documentary about an oil spill near the Philippines

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

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...

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...

A man plants trees around the world.

Short film about the sons of the director.

Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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