Mondomanila, or:
How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey
Khavn de la Cruz – PH 2012 – 75 min. 
Sc: Khavn de la Cruz – C: Albert Banzon – E: Lawrence Ang – P: Stephan Holl, Antoinette Köster, Achinette Villamor
Video – Tagalog
Best Director, Cinemanila IFF
German Premiere
"Mondo Cane" is the legendary and cruel shockumentary by Gualtiero Jacopetti (1962). Khavn sees his own "Mondo" in Manila. Jacopetti was an outsider; Khavn is a participant. The secret of Khavn is that he shows poverty and injustice in an almost cheerful way, making it even more awkward.
Life in the slums of large Third World cities has been filmed in many different ways, but never before was a musical made about it. Khavn shakes up film styles to his heart's content: exuberant video clips, grubby film noir, hyper-realistic documentary and even slapstick – linked by an original story and rousing music. – IFF Rotterdam
Khavn de la Cruz, born in 1973 in Manila, Phillipines. Filmmaker, poet, author, composer and enfant terrible of the New Filipino Wave. He is the most productive director of this so called filippino digital generation. Since 2002 he is the programming director of MOV digital film festival in Manila. He sings and composes for the piano band "Delakrus" and is part of the Lino Brocka tribute band "The Brockas" together with, among others, Lav Diaz.
Films (selection): Squatterpunk 2007 (2. UNDERDOX) – Ultimo 2007 (2. UNDERDOX) – The Muzzled Horse Of An Engineer In Search Of Mechanical Saddles 2008 – Philippine Bliss 2008 (3. UNDERDOX) – The Middle Mystery of Kristo Negro 2009 (4. UNDERDOX) – Mondomanila 2012 (7. UNDERDOX) – The Ruined Heart 2012