Directed credits
15
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Regular directing credits.
Director
Kidlat Tahimik
Directing
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Directed movies: 15Directed series: 0All crew credits: 20
TMDB ID: 931225
IMDb ID: nm0846684
Known for: Directing
Born: October 3, 1942
Age: 83
Place of birth: Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1974 - 2025
Years active: 52
Average TMDB rating: 7.29
Wikidata: Q6404765
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Director (14)Director of Photography (1)Writer (4)Editor (1)
Biography
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".
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Directed Movies
Movies directed by Kidlat Tahimik.
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
Director
2020 Movie
Journey
Director
2019 Movie
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
Director
2017 Movie
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
Director
2015 Movie
Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
Director
2006 Movie
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
Director
2005 Movie
6.0
Some More Rice
Director
2005 Movie
Holy Wood
Director
2003 Movie
Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
Director
1995 Movie
Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
Director
1995 Movie
5.0
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Director of Photography
1994 Movie
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
Director
1992 Movie
Memories of Overdevelopment
Director
1984 Movie
5.4
Turumba
Director
1981 Movie
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
Director
1980 Movie
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Highest rated movies linked with Kidlat Tahimik.
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Most viewed movie titles linked with Kidlat Tahimik.
7.2
Perfumed Nightmare
Editor
1979 Movie
Bulakna
2025 Movie
7.3
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
as Hombrecito, the Indian
1974 Movie
9.0
José Rizal
as La Liga Filipina Guest
1998 Movie
Holy Wood
Director
2003 Movie
5.4
Turumba
Director
1981 Movie
Lucid
as Himself
2023 Movie
I am Blushing
as Kidlat, the driver
1981 Movie
Roofs of the World! Unite!
Writer
2006 Movie
Cinemartyrs
as Tatay Kidlat
2025 Movie
5.0
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
Director of Photography
1994 Movie
6.0
A Movie Capital
as Self
1991 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Kidlat Tahimik.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Kidlat Tahimik.
Cinemartyrs
as Tatay Kidlat
2025 Movie
First Light
as Diwa
2025 Movie
Bulakna
2025 Movie
Lucid
as Himself
2023 Movie
A Man Who Became Cinema
2018 Movie
BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017 Movie
Ode to Dreamers
as Panaginip Pictures CEO
2015 Movie
Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015 Movie
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011 Movie
4.8
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
as Himself
2010 Movie
9.0
José Rizal
as La Liga Filipina Guest
1998 Movie
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
as Himself
1996 Movie