Kidlat Tahimik
Known for: Directing
Born: October 3, 1942
Place of birth: Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines
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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Filmography
34 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
8.0
First Light
2026
NR
Cinemartyrs
2025
NR
Bulakna
2025
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Lucid
2023
NR
Kabunyan's Journey to Liwanag
2020
6.0
Journey
2019
NR
A Man Who Became Cinema
2018
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BalikBayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux VI
2017
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Ode to Dreamers
2015
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Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III
2015
NR
Illogical Patterns of a Logical Parallelism
2011
4.8
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010
NR
Roofs of the World! Unite!
2006
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Video-Palaro: The Video Diaries of Kidlat Tahimik
2006
NR
Our Film-Grimage to Guimaras
2005
6.0
Some More Rice
2005
NR
Holy Wood
2003
8.8
José Rizal
1998
8.0
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
1996
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Celebrating the Year 2021, Today
1995
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Our Bomb Mission in Hiroshima
1995
6.3
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?
1994
NR
Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons
1992
6.0
A Movie Capital
1991
NR
Takedera mon amour: Diary of a Bamboo Connection
1991
NR
Memories of Overdevelopment
1984
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Shaman Wars
1982
9.0
I am Blushing
1981
6.2
Turumba
1981
NR
Yan Ki Made in Hongkong
1980
7.2
Perfumed Nightmare
1979
7.5
Who Invented The Yoyo? Who Invented The Moon Buggy?
1979
7.3
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
NR
Shaman Showman: The Life and Work of Roberto Villanueva
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