Lav Diaz
Date of Birth: 30 Dec 1958
Country: Philippines
Biography: Lavrente Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958) is a Filipino filmmaker and former film critic. Frequently known as one of the key members of the slow cinema movement, having made several of the longest narrative films on record, Diaz is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary Filipino filmmakers.
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 32 (Director), 26 (Writer)
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It's about a guy named Heremias, who represents the common Filipino, and comes to represent the nation's moral conscience. Heremias is on the road with his ox cart and a group of other men and their ox carts, travelling from town to town, selling handicrafts off their carts. But Heremias is brooding and fidgety. He wants to do something more than hang out with this same group of guys night after night, travelling the same route year after year. (Wise Kwai)
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A Filipino poet named Benjamin Agusan is the hapless native who returns to his hometown Padang to witness the aftermath of the super typhoon. (imdb)
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Butterflies Have No Memories (2009) - Short Film
A woman who had migrated to Canada at the age of 9 returns to her desolate hometown.
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A Filipino teenager is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out not only more about him but about the community of Filipinos in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug "shabu" on its youth. The detective who handles the case also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past. (imdb)
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The saga of a poor family, who lives in a rural community in the Philippines. His career serves as a metaphor for the country's history during the imposition of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos and the growth of activity of guerrilla, between 1971 and 1987. The film began to be made in 1993 and took ten years to complete.
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Three characters take on different identities to escape a life of pain and suffering.
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One of the most influential and audacious filmmakers, Lav Diaz returns to this Festival with this epic meditation on the role of the artist and the rise of fundamentalism in the world today. His subject, a filmmaker, struggles to finish his latest work, while dealing with pressure from his co-workers, festival programmers, girlfriends and the press (tiff.net)
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As no other filmmaker, Lav Diaz is involved with the suffering of the people of the Philippines, with its history of colonialism, corruption and poverty. A philosophical drama about the psychological effects of injustice and arbitrariness. Two poor labourers leave the city looking for a treasure. (mubi.com)
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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. (festival-cannes.fr)
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A military junta has taken power on the Philippines. Their takeover is fought by Moslem separatists, communists and rival military. In the middle of the chaos there is Hesus Mariano: academic, musician, poet and sniper. Politically tinted science-fiction action drama with an attitude.
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After a business venture fails, an ex-priest, Lauro Pajaron is forced to move his wife and two daughters the back to their ancestral home to begin anew in the charcoal-making trade. Wracked by guilt over the betrayal of his priestly vows, Lauro witnesses the effect his inner torment has on those closest to him as each family member is forced to search for their own form of redemption. (KG)
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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.
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Ang araw bago ang wakas (2016) - Short Film
In the year 2050, the Philippines braces for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets wander the streets.
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A lowly farmer whose wife is afflicted with a lingering illness gets involved in kidnapping that goes awry and culminates in tragedy. Years later, he turns to a crusading lady journalist to confess the details of the sensational crime that remains unsolved. (TMDB)
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After 30 years of wrongful imprisonment, a woman plans to take revenge on her former lover. (imdb)
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A woman from the end of the 19th century visits modern day Philippines and observes three interwoven stories: that of a prostitute, a group of criminals and a musician. (Mubi)
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An anti-musical musical, a rock opera, that delves into mythology. (imdb)
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Four high school friends hatch a plan for a farcical heist that sends them spiraling into a series of surreal events littered with clowns, fast food, and 'rakenrol', in an even more absurd nation of squalor and entertainment. (imdb)
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Part of the Jeonju Digital Project, Visitors consists of three films from three different directors. "Lost in the Mountains," by Hong Sang Soo. "Koma" by Naomi Kawase, and "Butterflies have no Memories" by Lav Diaz. (imdb)
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It is the year 2034 AD and Southeast Asia has been in the dark for the last three years, literally, because the sun hasn't shone as a result of massive volcanic eruptions at the Celebes Sea in 2031. Madmen control countries, communities, enclaves and bubble cities. Cataclysmic epidemics razed over the continent. Millions have died and millions have left. (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs)
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In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, filmmaker Lav Diaz traveled to the city of Tacloban, Philippines, to follow the everyday lives of the many children left desolated by the storm.
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Lav Diaz is back in Venice with yet another story of marginalization shot in vivid black and white and reflecting on the notions of "human" and "humanity".
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Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the filmmakers explore this relationship through four distinct stories as to context and imaginary.
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1957. Hernando Alamada, Filipino vaudeville great and a former socialist cadre, fulfills the last leg of his performing tour on the Mayflower cruise ship. He knows that the Philippines is experiencing a bitter transition yet again; the much-loved and popular president, Ramon Magsaysay, suddenly dies in a plane crash. He arrives in his poverty-stricken barrio, his country's state and future burdening him heavily, and at the same time, a deep personal turmoil confronts him. - IMDb
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Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc's murder during a buglary in their home in Quezon City. Lav Diaz makes use of one long take to allow Romulo an uninterrupted narration of the events. (imdb)
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How do the best cops fare in a country that incites the authorities against their own people? Not well, judging by Hermes Papauran. The police academy instructor keeps lashing out in violent outbursts while an aggressive skin rash eats away at his body. When he leaves Manila to seek a cure in his coastal home village, his former teacher is released from prison. And they have a score to settle. (iffmh.de)
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Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran continues his struggle to find resolution to a 15-year-old case around a volcanic ash laden landscape and an impenetrable lake.
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Prologue to the Great Desaparecido (2013) - Short Film
It had been 325 years that the Philippines was under Spanish rule when the Revolution, led by Andres Bonifacio, exploded on August 21, 1896. But on May 9, 1897, Bonifacio was charged with death sentence by rival revolutionaries led by Emilio Aguinaldo. Bonifacio's body has never been found. His wife, Gregoria De Jesus, searched for his body in the mountains for thirty days, calling for Andres and even spirits to help her find her husband.
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