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Lav Diaz
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 genr…
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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.
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2026
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors
Movie Director
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2025
Del Mundo
Movie
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2025
Cinemartyrs
Movie Kristo
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2025
Magellan
Movie Director
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2025
Phantosmia
Movie Director
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2024
Moneyslapper
Movie Lucas
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2024
Faith
Movie Director
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2024
Absalom Filipino
Movie Director
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2024
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
Movie Poet (voice)
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2024
Real Life Fiction
Movie
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2024
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
Movie Kristo Kastrado
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2023
When the Waves Are Gone
Movie Production Design
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2023
Essential Truths of the Lake
Movie Screenplay
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2023
Taxibol
Movie Himself
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2022
The Devil of Comparisons
Movie Priest
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2022
A Tale of Filipino Violence
Movie Screenplay
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2021
History of Ha
Movie Director
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2021
Atravesando el campo
Movie Lav Diaz
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2021
Life in 24 Frames a Second
Movie Self
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2020
Genus Pan
Movie Director
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2020
Liminal
Movie Director of Photography
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2020
Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times
Movie Director
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2019
Blockbuster Where a Giant Monster Destroys a Town
Movie Sound Recorder
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2019
Mañanita
Movie Writer
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2019
Habambuhay: Remembering Philippine Cinema
Movie Himself
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2019
The Oceans Are the Real Continents
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
Movie Director
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2019
The Halt
Movie Director
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2019
Journey
Movie Director
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2018
Ave
Movie Original Story
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2018
A Short History of a Few Bad Things
Movie Songs
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2018
The Boy Who Chose the Earth
Movie Director
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2018
Season of the Devil
Movie Director
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2016
Lily
Movie Drunk Man
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2016
The Woman Who Left
Movie Director
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2016
Singing in Graveyards
Movie Paul
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2016
The Day Before the End
Movie Writer
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2016
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
Movie Producer
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2015
Death in the Land of Encantos
Movie Director
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2015
Salvage
Movie Nilalang
