Lav Diaz
Also Known As: 라브 디아즈, 라브 디아스
Biography: Lavrente Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958) is a Filipino independent filmmaker. He is known as one of the key members of the slow cinema movement, having made several of the longest narrative films on record. Although he had been making films since the late 90s Diaz didn't attract much public attention outside of the Philippines and the festival circuit until the release of his 2013 film 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Datu Paglas, Cotabato, Philippines
Birthday: December 30, 1958
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Gender: Male
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Atravesando el campo
Overview: A dreamer with a calm and minstrel attitude lays on the grass, recites a poem and makes an offer to a tree. Is he dreaming, or is he a part of a dream? A contemporary peasant dress in a nostalgic revolution’s uniform, goes with his work routine in the countryside, takes care of the cows and thinks about the meaning of death and dream. The real documents and fiction blends into the path of the characters in a rural area in Cuba, and becomes a metaphor of an island inside another island or a dream inside another dream.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-09-08
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Taxibol
Overview: Driving around the streets of Cuba, Lav Diaz – the famous Filipino director – and Gustavo Flecha - a talkative Cuban taxi driver – find themselves discussing about politics, migration, social conditions and love; touching many personal stories and experiences, they create an historical affresco of the conditions of their own countries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-04-25
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Habambuhay: Remembering Philippine Cinema
Overview: A one-of-a-kind legacy project produced by TBA Studios, Habambuhay is a homage to the centennial anniversary of Philippine cinema–an insightfully entertaining documentary series, revisiting the personal experiences of those who work in front of or behind the cameras, those who have shaped the film industry of the Philippines for the longest time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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Green Rocking Chair
Overview: Juan Baybayin searches for the early alphabet of the Filipino and the journey takes him to different kind of adventures. A personal insights of the filmmaker regarding the baybayin-the early Filipino writings before the Spanish colonizers came to the island.
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Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Manila Skies
Overview: Inspired by a true news account, this is the astounding story of a lone deranged hijacker who has struggled to survive in the chaos of modern Philippine society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-19
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Colossal
Overview: Colossal explores the complexities of grief and the process of grieving as understood through the myth of a Man as he ventures through shifting landscapes ruminating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Todo Todo Teros
Overview: Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one. Not an instant product, but an experimental feature in which diary material is brought together to form an intriguing puzzle.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-18
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Echoserang Frog
Overview: An industry veteran is given a chance to produce and star in his own movie. But he quickly finds movie production isn't quite as glamorous as it seems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Overview: In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a mythical land without the bags start to float and a fresh council member sparks an accidental revolution.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-29
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Lorna
Overview: Lorna is sixty year old woman who is constantly searching for the right man, having failed at so many relationships. Having lived close to a lifetime alone, she decides to take another stab at moving on and more importantly, love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2014-11-09
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The Devil of Comparisons
Overview: The Devil of Comparisons (original title: El Demonio de las Comparaciones), was a 30-hour black & white silent film from 1929 by Narding Salome Exelsio (1883-1949). It explores the cyclical lives, deaths, and rebirths of Jose Rizal and his characters (played by hitherto unidentified actors) in a wasteland ruled by demons.
Genres: History
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2022-09-25
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The Great Cinema Party
Overview: A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War as its foremost attractions. There, they explore the island and retire in a rustic mansion used once to make silent films. Outside the city, the woods and sea become a meeting place for more movie personalities and it all becomes a celebration of what was left behind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-28
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Salamat sa Alaala
Overview: The documentary serves as a tribute to National Artist for Cinema Gerardo de Leon in celebration of his Centennial Year. “Salamat sa Alaala.” is inspired by the music composed by the late film director when he was a teenager playing background music for silent movies in Manila theatres. The video opens up with a capsulated history of the birth of the Filipino movies followed by a series of shots of veteran actresses, the academe and the young generation of filmmakers affirming his unique qualities as a world-class film figure. Then we unravel his private life as a family man. The documentary is one way of thanking him for his lasting legacy in the art form he left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-08-09
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Headless
Overview: The start of the film sets the tone. A tortured man looks as if he will castrate himself. Later he staggers aimlessly and bleeding heavily through the streets of a town that is just waking up. In parallel, the film shows the marital discussions of a couple, with the husband hiding behind the camera.
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Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Last Pinoy Action King
Overview: An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
Overview: In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is revisited in the light of early silent films.
Genres: Drama Animation Fantasy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-06-26
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Singing in Graveyards
Overview: Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination and mysticism. One day, he is finally given the chance to open for the rock legend’s concert but he must do something neither of them has done before – write a love song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-08
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Real Life Fiction
Overview: An actor with an illustrious career decides to write, direct, and act in a film that will inevitably bring him closer to his own demise before revealing that his truth may actually be far from what he has become.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-08-28
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Lily
Overview: Stories abound in Cebu about a woman rumored to be a murderous monster, but behind the myth is a mother seeking justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2016-11-15
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Independencia
Overview: Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2010-04-21
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Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
Overview: Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Manila
Overview: A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug addict who tries to rebuild his sense of self and reconnect with the people around him. For the "Night" segment, Pascual portrays the role of Philip, who works as a bodyguard for a mayor's son. The bodyguard believes that his boss considers him as part of the family but after a shooting incident, he realizes his real worth to his boss. As he struggles to hide, he is slowly consumed by the claws of darkness lurking the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2009-06-17
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Salvage
Overview: A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in the deeps of the forest, where more mystery and danger lay in wait.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2015-11-14
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Return to Manila: Filipino Cinema
Overview: Documentary about the history of Philippine cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-09
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Jingle lang ang Pahina
Overview: Jingle Chordbook Magazine, first published in 1970, promptly taught a generation of Filipinos to play the guitar. Its story also explores how a small independent publication survived the weight of its time – the dark Martial Law years – and how it inspired the Filipino youth to think for themselves and wield the guitar like a weapon. The documentary “Jingle Lang Ang Pahina” tells the story of Jingle, its ragtag crew, and its loyal fans in a rambling, multi-layered narrative told in different voices and perspectives by the writers, artists, fans, collectors, musicians, freaks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2012-06-29
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Jeonju Digital Project 2012
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Blockbuster Where a Giant Monster Destroys a Town
Overview: In a village of Cuba devastated after trying to imitate the north american suburb model, a sound recorder tries to tape sounds for an incoming blockbuster about a giant monster that destroys a whole town.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-12
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Life in 24 Frames a Second
Overview: "Life in 24 Frames a Second" is a film about hardship, misfortune, perseverance and triumph. The personal stories of John Woo (The Killer), Anurag Kashyap (Sacred Games), Rithy Panh (The Missing Picture) and Lav Diaz (The Woman Who Left), who survived extreme poverty, disease, sexual abuse, genocide and civil war to go on to become maestros of world cinema. 'Survivors' united by their abiding love of the movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-26
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Moneyslapper
Overview: In dreary Porac Pampanga, a young man, Daniel, abandons his motherland after winning the biggest cash prize in the history of Philippine lottery. Five years later, he is searching for home and redemption through the people that make up his past. With each visit, his story unfolds like the last digit of a winning combination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2024-11-09
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