
Lav Diaz
Biography
Lav Diaz (born Lavrente Indico Diaz on 30 December 1958) is a Filipino 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.
Acting (25 movies)

Atravesando el campo
2021

Taxibol
2023

Habambuhay: Remembering Philippine Cinema
2019

Manila Skies
2009

Colossal
2012

Todo Todo Teros
2006

Echoserang Frog
2014

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
2024

Lorna
2014

The Last Pinoy Action King
2015

Headless
2004

Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024

Singing in Graveyards
2016

Real Life Fiction
2024

Lily
2016

Independencia
2010

Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010

Manila
2009

Salvage
2015

Jingle lang ang Pahina
2012

Jeonju Digital Project 2012
2012

Blockbuster Where a Giant Monster Destroys a Town
2019

Life in 24 Frames a Second
2021

Moneyslapper
2024

Cinemartyrs
2025
Directing (43 movies)

Visitors
2009

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
2012

Century of Birthing
2011

Jesus the Revolutionary
2002

Serafin Geronimo: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion
1998

Magellan
2025

Melancholia
2008

Evolution of a Filipino Family
2004

Butterflies Have No Memory
2009

Norte, The End of History
2014

Death in the Land of Encantos
2015

Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
2006

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013

Investigation on The Night That Won't Forget
2012

Prologue to the Great Desaparecido
2013

Burger Boys
1999

Naked Under The Moon
1999

Batang West Side
2001

Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution
2011

History of Ha
2021

From What Is Before
2014

Storm Children, Book One
2014

Purgatorio
2009

Image Nation
2006

A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery
2016

The Day Before the End
2016

The Woman Who Left
2016

Fragment
2015

Season of the Devil
2018

Essential Truths of the Lake
2023

Phantosmia
2025

Journey
2019

The Halt
2019

When the Waves Are Gone
2023

30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
2019

A Tale of Filipino Violence
2022

Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times
2020

Genus Pan
2020

Liminal
2020

Faith
2024
Absalom Filipino
2024

The Boy Who Chose the Earth
2018

Firefly
2013