🎬 Director
Kidlat Tahimik
🎂 Born 3 October 1942 (age 83)📍 Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
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Popularity Score
18
Acting Credits
20
Directed
Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik (a Tagalog translation of "silent lightning"), is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinemamovement through their critiques of neocolonialism. One of the most prominent names in the Filipino film industry, he has garnered various accolades locally and internationally, including a Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema. He is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the "Father of Philippine Independent Cinema".
Known For
Directed Films(20)
★ 7.3
Perfumed Nightmare
1979
Director
Journey
2019
Director
★ 7.5
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979
Director
★ 6.2
Turumba
1981
Director
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
1980
Director
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
1995
Director
★ 6.3
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994
Director
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
2005
Director
★ 8.0
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996
Director
Memories of Overdevelopment
1984
Director
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
1995
Director
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017
Director
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
2020
Director
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015
Director
★ 6.0
Some More Rice
2005
Director
Roofs of the World! Unite!
2006
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Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
1992
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Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
2006
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Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
1991
Director
Holy Wood
2003
Director
Full Filmography(18 films)
YearTitleRating
1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser★ 7.31998José Rizal★ 9.01981I am Blushing★ 9.01979Perfumed Nightmare★ 7.32026First Light—2010Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement★ 4.81991A Movie Capital★ 6.01979Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?★ 7.52025Cinemartyrs—2015Ode to Dreamers—2018A Man Who Became Cinema—2011Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism—2025Bulakna—1996Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi★ 8.02017BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI—2015Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III—2023Lucid—1982Shaman Wars—