
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
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Death in the Land of Encantos
2007 · Series
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Galvez: Hanggang sa Dulo ng Mundo, Hahanapin Kita
1993 · Movie
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Lorna
2014 · Movie
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The Boy Who Chose the Earth
2018 · Movie
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Alamat ni China Doll
2013 · Movie
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Death in the Land of Encantos
2015 · Movie
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Headless
2004 · Movie
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From What Is Before
2014 · Movie
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Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
2006 · Movie
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A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
2016 · Movie
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Evolution of a Filipino Family
2004 · Movie
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Century of Birthing
2011 · Movie
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Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
2012 · Movie
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History of Ha
2021 · Movie
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Storm Children
2014 · Movie
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Batang West Side
2001 · Movie
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Norte, the End of History
2014 · Movie
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Colossal
2012 · Movie
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Good Friend, Evil Enemy
1991 · Movie
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Melancholia
2008 · Movie
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When the Waves Are Gone
2023 · Movie
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The Woman Who Left
2016 · Movie
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The Oceans Are the Real Continents
2019 · Movie
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Daddy Goon
1991 · Movie
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Magellan
2025 · Movie
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Butterflies Have No Memory
2009 · Movie
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The Day Before the End
2016 · Movie
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Essential Truths of the Lake
2023 · Movie
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Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution
2011 · Movie
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Manila
2009 · Movie
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The Halt
2019 · Movie
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Prologue to the Great Desaparecido
2013 · Movie
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Singing in Graveyards
2016 · Movie
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Wake (Subic)
2015 · Movie
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Serafin Geronimo: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion
1998 · Movie
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Season of the Devil
2018 · Movie
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Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2024 · Movie
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Liminal
2020 · Movie
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Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget
2012 · Movie
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Burger Boys
1999 · Movie
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Naked Under the Moon
1999 · Movie
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Genus Pan
2020 · Movie
The Great Cinema Party
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The Great Cinema Party
2012 · Movie
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Jesus the Revolutionary
2002 · Movie
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Todo Todo Teros
2006 · Movie
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Movie
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Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times
2020 · Movie
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Mañanita
2019 · Movie