Lav Diaz
Directing
1958-12-30 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersLet Us Through, Dear Ancestors
2026 · Movie
Del Mundo
2025 · Movie
Cinemartyrs
2025 · Movie
Magellan
2025 · Movie
Phantosmia
2025 · Movie
Moneyslapper
2024 · Movie
Absalom Filipino
2024 · Movie
Faith
2024 · Movie
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2024 · Movie
Real Life Fiction
2024 · Movie
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024 · Movie
When the Waves Are Gone
2023 · Movie
Essential Truths of the Lake
2023 · Movie
Taxibol
2023 · Movie
The Devil of Comparisons
2022 · Movie
A Tale of Filipino Violence
2022 · Movie
History of Ha
2021 · Movie
Atravesando el campo
2021 · Movie
Life in 24 Frames a Second
2021 · Movie
Genus Pan
2020 · Movie
Liminal
2020 · Movie
Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times
2020 · Movie
Blockbuster Where a Giant Monster Destroys a Town
2019 · Movie
Mañanita
2019 · Movie
Habambuhay: Remembering Philippine Cinema
2019 · Movie
The Oceans Are the Real Continents
2019 · Movie
30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
2019 · Movie
The Halt
2019 · Movie
Journey
2019 · Movie
Ave
2018 · Movie
A Short History of a Few Bad Things
2018 · Movie
The Boy Who Chose the Earth
2018 · Movie
Season of the Devil
2018 · Movie
Lily
2016 · Movie
The Woman Who Left
2016 · Movie
Singing in Graveyards
2016 · Movie
The Day Before the End
2016 · Movie
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
2016 · Movie
Death in the Land of Encantos
2015 · Movie
Salvage
2015 · Movie
Wake (Subic)
2015 · Movie
The Last Pinoy Action King
2015 · Movie
Fragment
2015 · Movie
Salamat sa Alaala
2015 · Movie
Lorna
2014 · Movie
Storm Children
2014 · Movie
From What Is Before
2014 · Movie
Echoserang Frog
2014 · Movie
Norte, the End of History
2014 · Movie
Alamat ni China Doll
2013 · Movie
Prologue to the Great Desaparecido
2013 · Movie
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Movie
Colossal
2012 · Movie
Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget
2012 · Movie
Jingle lang ang Pahina
2012 · Movie
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
2012 · Movie
The Great Cinema Party
2012 · Movie
Jeonju Digital Project 2012
2012 · Movie
Century of Birthing
2011 · Movie
Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution
2011 · Movie
Return to Manila: Filipino Cinema
2010 · Movie
Independencia
2010 · Movie
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010 · Movie
Butterflies Have No Memory
2009 · Movie
Manila Skies
2009 · Movie
Manila
2009 · Movie
Purgatorio
2009 · Movie
Melancholia
2008 · Movie
Death in the Land of Encantos
2007 · Series
Green Rocking Chair
2007 · Movie
Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
2006 · Movie
Image Nation
2006 · Movie
Todo Todo Teros
2006 · Movie
Evolution of a Filipino Family
2004 · Movie
Headless
2004 · Movie
Jesus the Revolutionary
2002 · Movie
Batang West Side
2001 · Movie
Naked Under the Moon
1999 · Movie
Burger Boys
1999 · Movie
Serafin Geronimo: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion
1998 · Movie
Galvez: Hanggang sa Dulo ng Mundo, Hahanapin Kita
1993 · Movie
Daddy Goon
1991 · Movie
Good Friend, Evil Enemy
1991 · Movie
The Caretaker
1989 · Movie
An Amazon
Movie
Heremias: Book Two – The Legend of The Invisible Island
Movie
Untitled When the Waves Are Gone sequel
Movie
Henrico's Farm
Movie
The Sadness of a Portuguese Woman
Movie
The Sacrifice
Movie
Beatriz, La Mujer
Movie
Beatriz, The Wife
Movie
Ang Araw ng Itim na Nazareno
Movie
Kawalan
Movie