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

Galvez: Hanggang sa Dulo ng Mundo, Hahanapin Kita

Lorna

The Boy Who Chose the Earth

Alamat ni China Doll

Death in the Land of Encantos

Headless

From What Is Before

Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery

Evolution of a Filipino Family

Century of Birthing

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE

History of Ha

Storm Children

Batang West Side

Norte, the End of History

Colossal

Good Friend, Evil Enemy

Melancholia

When the Waves Are Gone

The Woman Who Left

The Oceans Are the Real Continents

Daddy Goon

Magellan

Butterflies Have No Memory

The Day Before the End

Essential Truths of the Lake

Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution

Manila

The Halt

Prologue to the Great Desaparecido

Singing in Graveyards

Wake (Subic)

Serafin Geronimo: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion

Season of the Devil

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust

Liminal

Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget

Burger Boys

Naked Under the Moon

Genus Pan

The Great Cinema Party

Jesus the Revolutionary

Todo Todo Teros

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times

Mañanita