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