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Lav Diaz
Director 67 years old

Lav Diaz

Columbio, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines

Lavrente 'Lav' Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958) is a Filipino independent filmmaker and former film critic. He is known as one of the key practitioners of the slow cinema genre, producing a diverse range of some of the longest narrative films that explore social and... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

10 titles
Lahi, hayop

Lahi, hayop

Lav Diaz 2020 2h 38m

Three illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the sea, the mountains and the forest until they reached their destination. Or did they really reach their cursed place?

Ang hupa

Ang hupa

Lav Diaz 2019 4h 42m

Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.

Ang panahon ng halimaw

Ang panahon ng halimaw

Lav Diaz 2018 3h 52m

In late 1970s Philippines, a military-controlled militia oppresses a remote village, spreading terror both physical and psychological. Fearless young doctor Lorena opens a clinic for the poor but disappears without a trace. Her activist poet husband sets out to find her.

Hele sa hiwagang hapis

Hele sa hiwagang hapis

Lav Diaz 2016 8h 5m

Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. This eight-hour epic examines this myth, undertaking an expedition into history through various interwoven narrative threads, held together by an exploration of the individual’s role in history.

Ang babaeng humayo

Ang babaeng humayo

Lav Diaz 2016 3h 49m

After 30 years of wrongful imprisonment, a woman plans to take revenge on her former lover.

Mula sa kung ano ang noon

Mula sa kung ano ang noon

Lav Diaz 2014 5h 45m

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081, putting the entire country under Martial Law.

Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan

Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan

Lav Diaz 2013 4h 10m

A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.

Melancholia

Melancholia

Lav Diaz 2008 7h 30m

Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.

Heremias: Unang aklat - Ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak

Heremias: Unang aklat - Ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak

Lav Diaz 2006 8h 39m

A wandering peddler suddenly decides to separates from his group of travellers, his reasons are unknown and the dangers will be many.

Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino

Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino

Lav Diaz 2004 10h 25m

Spanning from 1971 to 1987, in rural areas under the Marcos regime, a poor farming family struggle to overcome challenges brought on by corruption and greed for power.

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