Direction: Lav Diaz

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Angie Ferro · Pen Medina · Elryan De Vera · Marifé Necesito

Plot A high modernist epic about a family of farmers living for 15 years under a state of siege during the Marcos era. In one plot thread, a family member is...

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 Archie Alemania · Angeli Bayani · Soliman Cruz · Mae Paner

Plot 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...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Hazel Orencio · Alessandra de Rossi · Susan Africa · Joel Saracho

Plot This is the chronicle of the search by Gregoria de Jesus - one of the few women leaders of the Philippine resistance against Spain - for the body of her...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast John Lloyd Cruz · Ronnie Lazaro · Shamaine Buencamino · Melvin Boonggaling

Plot Lt. Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad, being a witness to his institution's being a party to a murderous anti-drug...

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 Lav Diaz

Cast Piolo Pascual · Shaina Magdayao · Pinky Amador · Bituin Escalante

Plot An anti-musical musical, a rock opera, that delves into mythology.

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 Hazel Orencio · Sigrid Andrea Bernardo · Dante Perez Modesta · Evelyn Vargas

Plot Like Prologue to the Great Desparecido, Elegy finds Diaz looking back to the Filipino Revolution of the last years of the 19th century. Here, he imagines a woman from that...

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Hazel Orencio · Noel Miralles · Noel Santo Domingo · Willy Fernandez

Plot In the year 2050, the Philippines brace for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets are...

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 Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Plot 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Sid Miles Garcia · Satya Paningbatan

Plot The child has something to do in his life, he trains and makes plans. Then, someone knocks on the door and something moves away, and literally stays in the rain....

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Gerald Madrid · Marcus Madrigal · Marco Salvador · Tricia Roman