Lav Diaz
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.
Fotos
Películas (95)
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors
2026 · Director, Production Design, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Del Mundo
2025
Cinemartyrs
2025 · Kristo
Magallanes
2025 · Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Production Designer, Production Design
Phantosmia
2025 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Production Design, Story, Screenplay
Moneyslapper
2024 · Lucas
Faith
2024 · Director
Absalom Filipino
2024 · Director
Schirkoa: La ciudad de las mentiras
2024 · Poet (voice)
Real Life Fiction
2024
Rizal's Makamisa: Phantasm of Revenge
2024 · Kristo Kastrado
When the Waves Are Gone
2023 · Production Design, Director, Writer, Editor
Essential Truths of the Lake
2023 · Cinematography, Writer, Screenplay, Editor, Director
Taxibol
2023 · Himself
The Devil of Comparisons
2022 · Priest
A Tale of Filipino Violence
2022 · Editor, Screenplay, Production Design, Director
History of Ha
2021 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Production Design
Atravesando el campo
2021 · Lav Diaz
Life in 24 Frames a Second
2021 · Self
Genus Pan
2020 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
Liminal
2020 · Director of Photography, Director
Himala: A Dialectic for Our Times
2020 · Director
Blockbuster Where a Giant Monster Destroys a Town
2019 · Sound Recorder, Sound Recordist, Director of Photography
Mañanita
2019 · Writer
Habambuhay: Remembering Philippine Cinema
2019 · Himself
The Oceans Are the Real Continents
2019 · Executive Producer, Music
30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille
2019 · Director
The Halt
2019 · Director, Production Design, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Journey
2019 · Director, Screenplay
Ave
2018 · Original Story
A Short History of a Few Bad Things
2018 · Songs
The Boy Who Chose the Earth
2018 · Director, Writer
Season of the Devil
2018 · Director, Writer, Music, Editor
Lily
2016 · Drunk Man
La mujer que se fue
2016 · Director, Screenplay, Editor, Cinematography, Co-Producer
Singing in Graveyards
2016 · Paul
The Day Before the End
2016 · Writer, Director
Canción de cuna para el misterio trágico
2016 · Producer, Director, Editor, Screenplay
Death in the Land of Encantos
2015 · Director, Writer, Editor, Cinematography
Salvage
2015 · Nilalang
The Last Pinoy Action King
2015 · Himself
Wake (Subic)
2015 · Music
Fragment
2015 · Director, Writer
Salamat sa Alaala
2015 · Himself
Lorna
2014 · Rocky
Storm Children
2014 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
From What Is Before
2014 · Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
Echoserang Frog
2014 · Himself
Norte, the End of History
2014 · Screenplay, Editor, Director
Alamat ni China Doll
2013 · Screenplay
Prologue to the Great Desaparecido
2013 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer
Colossal
2012 · Shaman
Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget
2012 · Writer, Director, Cinematography, Editor
Jingle lang ang Pahina
2012
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
2012 · Screenplay, Director, Cinematography, Editor, Producer, Sound
The Great Cinema Party
2012
Jeonju Digital Project 2012
2012
Century of Birthing
2011 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor, Music
Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution
2011 · Guitarist (Uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Return to Manila: Filipino Cinema
2010 · himself
Independencia
2010 · Townspeople
Philippine New Wave: This Is Not a Film Movement
2010 · Himself
Butterflies Have No Memory
2009 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Manila Skies
2009
Manila
2009 · Director
Purgatorio
2009 · Director
Melancholia
2008 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
Green Rocking Chair
2007
Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
2006 · Editor, Director, Writer
Image Nation
2006 · Writer, Director
Todo Todo Teros
2006 · Himself
Evolution of a Filipino Family
2004 · Screenplay, Director, Story, Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Headless
2004
Jesus the Revolutionary
2002 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Batang West Side
2001 · Director, Screenplay
Naked Under the Moon
1999 · Screenplay, Director
Burger Boys
1999 · Screenplay, Director
Serafin Geronimo: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion
1998 · Director, Screenplay
Galvez: Hanggang sa Dulo ng Mundo, Hahanapin Kita
1993 · Screenplay
Daddy Goon
1991 · Screenplay
Good Friend, Evil Enemy
1991 · Screenplay
The Caretaker
1989 · Story
The Sacrifice
· Pilo
Untitled When the Waves Are Gone sequel
· Director, Writer
Kawalan
· Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
Beatriz, La Mujer
· Director
Heremias: Book Two – The Legend of The Invisible Island
· Director
Henrico's Farm
· Writer, Director
Ang Araw ng Itim na Nazareno
· Director
An Amazon
· Director
Beatriz, The Wife
· Director, Writer
An Entry Into the Sadness of a Portuguese Woman
· Director, Writer
Untitled 'false prophets' film
· Director
Noli Me Tángere
· Director, Writer
