Cinematography: Lav Diaz

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Roeder Camanag · Perry Dizon · Angeli Bayani · Dante Perez Modesta

Plot A Filipino poet named Benjamin Agusan (Roeder Camanag) is the hapless native who returns to his hometown Padang to witness the aftermath of the super typhoon. For the past seven...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Hazel Orencio · Perry Dizon · Karenina Haniel · Ching Valdes-Aran

Plot The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked, a man is found bleeding to death at a crossroads...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Raul Arellano · Angeli Bayani · Soliman Cruz · Perry Dizon

Plot Lav Diaz's Melancholia is an eight-hour meditation of sorts on the maddening persistence of sadness in this world, can logically be divided into three parts and an epilogue. The first...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Angel Aquino · Joel Torre · Perry Dizon · Hazel Orencio

Plot An artist struggles to finish his work. A storyline about a cult plays in his head. Fundamentalism will destroy the world. The artist destroys his muse in the process. He...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Charo Santos-Concio · John Lloyd Cruz · Michael De Mesa · Nonie Buencamino

Plot For Horacia Somorostro, living has become a veritable reclusión perpetua, an imprisonment. Life’s spins and randomness have been very difficult, vicious and inexplicable for her. The year is 1997. Princess...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Joel Lamangan · Piolo Pascual · Shaina Magdayao · Pinky Amador

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

Direction Lav Diaz

Direction Hong Sang-soo · Naomi Kawase · Lav Diaz

Cast Jeong Yu-mi · Moon Sung-Kuen · Kazuki Kitamura · Yûko Nakamura

Plot Every year the Jeonju Digital Project, initiated in 2000 by the Jeonju International Festival (South Korea), commissions three filmmakers to make a digital short. Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Willy Fernandez · John Elbert Ferrer · Lois Goff · Dante Perez Modesta

Plot In a formerly prosperous, remote mining village, unemployed workers live in economic oppression until the mine-owner’s daughter returns from Canada.

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Hazel Orencio · Archie Alemania · Noel Santo Domingo

Plot 'Prologue To The Great Desaparecido' is an introduction to Lav Diaz’s most important upcoming feature film, 'The Great Desaparecido', which questions Truth and History around Philippine Revolution and Independence.

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Hazel Orencio · Kristine Kintana · Noel Santo Domingo · Willy Fernandez

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast John Lloyd Cruz · Teroy Guzman · Mae Paner · Dolly De Leon

Plot 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...

Direction Lav Diaz · Philippe Grandrieux · Manuela de Laborde · Óscar Enríquez

Cast Camille Grandrieux · Lola Norda · Sid Miles Garcia · Allen Alzula

Direction Lav Diaz

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast John Lloyd Cruz · Hazel Orencio · Shaina Magdayao · Bart Guingona

Plot Faced with Philippine President Duterte's bloody murders and brazen lies, Lt. Hermes Papauran continues his struggle to find resolution to a 15-year-old case around a volcanic ash laden landscape and...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Hazel Orencio · Erwin Romulo

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Bart Guingona · Melvin Boonggaling · Nanding Josef · Hazel Orencio

Plot I once was asked to define man, the so-called human beings, supposedly the most superior inhabitant of planet Earth, and due to the moment’s urgency, for a quick reply, all...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast John Lloyd Cruz · Bart Guingona · Agot Isidro · Hazel Orencio

Plot With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III, inheritor of the hacienda and businesses of his powerful clan,...