Lav Diaz

Known for DirectingBorn 1958-12-30 (age 67)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 political issues, minimalistic storytelling, long takes, and cinematic form. Although he had been making films since the late 1990s, Diaz didn't attract much public attention outside of the Philippines and the festival circuit until the release of Norte, the End of History, which was entered into Un Certain Regard section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. His three subsequent films have received much critical attention and many awards with 2014's From What Is Before earning him the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival as well as a nomination for the Asian Film Award for Best Director, 2016's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery competing for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival and winning the Alfred Bauer Prize, and 2016's The Woman Who Left competing at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and winning the Golden Lion.Read more

Movies & web series

Death in the Land of Encantos

A Tale of Filipino Violence

Galvez: Hanggang sa Dulo ng Mundo, Hahanapin Kita

Lorna

Phantosmia

Death in the Land of Encantos

Alamat ni China Doll

Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess

From What Is Before

Headless

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

History of Ha

Evolution of a Filipino Family

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE

Batang West Side

Century of Birthing

The Boy Who Chose the Earth

Storm Children

Norte, the End of History

Colossal

Good Friend, Evil Enemy

Melancholia

Faith

Essential Truths of the Lake

When the Waves Are Gone

The Woman Who Left

The Day Before the End

The Oceans Are the Real Continents

Butterflies Have No Memory

Daddy Goon

Magellan

Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution

The Halt

Prologue to the Great Desaparecido

Manila

Season of the Devil

Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times

Journey

Singing in Graveyards

Wake (Subic)

Burger Boys

Serafin Geronimo: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

Naked Under the Moon

Liminal

Genus Pan

Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget

The Great Cinema Party