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Lavrente Indico Diaz (born December 30, 1958) is a Filipino independent 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.
Most Popular Lav Diaz Trailers
Total trailers found: 84
26 June 2021
"Life in 24 Frames a Second" is a film about hardship, misfortune, perseverance and triumph. The personal stories of John Woo (The Killer), Anurag Kashyap (Sacred Games), Rithy Panh (The Missing Picture) and Lav Diaz (The Woman Who Left), who survived extreme poverty, disease, sexual abuse, genocide and civil war to go on to become maestros of world cinema.
22 October 2015
First begun in 2006, WAKE (SUBIC) completes the documentary diptych, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PHILIPPINES, the first part of which, VAPOR TRAIL (CLARK) was released in 2010.
28 September 2016
After three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused.
29 October 2019
An ex-military sniper who was honorably discharged accepts a mission that will indefinitely change her life in the attempts to make ends meet.
11 September 2026
1617, Las Islas Filipinas. The Spanish friar, Father Enciso, the encomendero of one of the islands, rules with unrelenting toughness and an insatiable libido to tame the savages.
25 September 2022
The Devil of Comparisons (original title: El Demonio de las Comparaciones), was a 30-hour black & white silent film from 1929 by Narding Salome Exelsio (1883-1949).
10 September 2025
At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands.
01 January 2007
Juan Baybayin searches for the early alphabet of the Filipino and the journey takes him to different kind of adventures.
30 December 2015
A poet hearkens back to his Philippine village after years abroad in Europe. Horrified to discover that the community has been buried under landslides, he wanders the countryside, reconnecting with friends, lovers, and family whose lives teeter on the brink of destruction.
28 August 2013
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
29 August 2019
Having Cuba as a background, decadent and in crisis, in a black-and-white lacerated by the Caraibic swinging rain, Alex and Edith, a couple in their 30s, live their love story made of small daily gestures, stories from the past, nostalgia, and a deep intimacy.
21 October 2025
This biographical documentary honors Doy del Mundo’s lifelong devotion to education, film, and public service; his pioneering role in shaping Philippine film education; and his enduring impact on institutions and generations he helped build and uplift.
16 August 2023
One of the Philippines' top investigators, Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, faces a deep moral crossroads.
03 July 2014
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned.
29 August 2008
Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.
26 March 2016
Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial rule.
09 November 2024
In dreary Porac Pampanga, a young man, Daniel, abandons his motherland after winning the biggest cash prize in the history of Philippine lottery.
29 August 2024
In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences.
16 October 1991
Ricardo accidentally kills his lover and requests his friend Mando, to serve the punishment. Meanwhile, the latter discovers that his friend ordered his assassination.
03 November 2006
A wandering peddler suddenly decides to separates from his group of travellers, his reasons are unknown and the dangers will be many.
06 July 2022
With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III, inheritor of the hacienda and businesses of his powerful clan, agonises on becoming the new feudal lord and capitulating with Marcos’ designs to control the Philippines.
22 May 2018
In late 1970s Philippines, a military-controlled militia oppresses a remote village, spreading terror both physical and psychological.
23 May 1993
Galvez seeking for justice.
28 April 2012
A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War as its foremost attractions.
06 December 2012
Colossal explores the complexities of grief and the process of grieving as understood through the myth of a Man as he ventures through shifting landscapes ruminating.
15 December 2001
When a Filipino teen is found fatally shot on the streets of New Jersey, the investigation into his death reveals the struggles of the Filipino-American community, including the horrifying effects of methamphetamine on its youth.
01 June 2019
Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.
29 January 2025
Hilarion Zabala has a mysterious, recurring olfactory problem. A psychiatrist suspects a lingering case of phantosmia, a phantom smell, and possibly caused by a deep psychological fracture.
01 January 2010
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.
11 March 2014
An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced to take a harsh sentence; and a mother and her two children wander the countryside in search of some kind of redemption.
11 June 2019
For the 30th anniversaire of FIDMarseille about thirty directors have done us the honor of offering us some very beautiful short films.
02 April 2014
An industry veteran is given a chance to produce and star in his own movie. But he quickly finds movie production isn't quite as glamorous as it seems.
17 September 2004
Spanning from 1971 to 1987, in rural areas under the Marcos regime, a poor farming family struggle to overcome challenges brought on by corruption and greed for power.
08 September 2016
Pepe, a 68-year-old impersonator of a Filipino rock legend, lives alone on the borders of reality, imagination and mysticism.
19 October 2009
Inspired by a true news account, this is the astounding story of a lone deranged hijacker who has struggled to survive in the chaos of modern Philippine society.
27 November 1991
A Philippine comedy starring Paquito Diaz, Herbert Bautista, and Aiza Seguerra.
12 November 2009
In the remote Philippines, the economic crisis has taken over and a group of men don't do much apart from drink.
09 October 2010
Documentary about the history of Philippine cinema.
22 September 2006
Imahe Nasyon is a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues.
22 October 2015
An intimate and often heartbreaking portrait of one of the Philippines' most beloved screen icons.
06 February 2002
A man named Jesus takes on the ruling military junta.
21 October 2018
A princess seeks refuge in a convent to escape an arranged marriage. A young prince tries to make sense of his station.
03 October 2025
A young filmmaker is bent on recreating forgotten massacres from Philippine history, but when she begins shooting at a site where 1,000 men, women, and children were slaughtered, angry spirits are awakened and the lives of her team and the local villagers are put in peril.
14 November 2015
A news team investigating rumors of aswang killings in a remote barrio are attacked by a group of soldiers, forcing them to run for their lives in the deeps of the forest, where more mystery and danger lay in wait.
08 September 2021
A dreamer with a calm and minstrel attitude lays on the grass, recites a poem and makes an offer to a tree.
26 June 2024
In this whimsical historical fresco, a counterpoint to today’s urgent political issues, the figure of the Filipino revolutionary Rizal is revisited in the light of early silent films.
12 October 2021
Puppeteer Hernando Alamada returns home, experiencing a bitter transition in the aftermath of the unexpected death of Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay.
06 August 2023
Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran continues his struggle to find a resolution to a 15-year-old case around a volcanic ash-laden landscape and an impenetrable lake.
18 August 2006
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as well be one.
11 October 2013
Andrés Bonifacio, the freedom fighter known as the father of the Philippine revolution, was executed by rival revolutionaries in 1897.
15 November 2016
Stories abound in Cebu about a woman rumored to be a murderous monster, but behind the myth is a mother seeking justice.
21 April 2020
To this day, Ishmael Bernal's movie Himala is still in our town, in our world. This will be reflected in the broader perspective of the majority, of the surrounding events.
12 November 2019
In a village of Cuba devastated after trying to imitate the north american suburb model, a sound recorder tries to tape sounds for an incoming blockbuster about a giant monster that destroys a whole town.
26 January 2009
A man and a woman follow a river, each on their own. Members of the Aeta tribe dance in an eternal circle around two motionless men.
23 July 2020
A FICUNAM commission for four directors, Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music.
10 December 2015
sequel to "Heremias Book One : The Legend of the Lizard Princess"
03 April 2019
This is a Filipino omnibus film about three different journeys.
09 November 2014
Lorna is sixty year old woman who is constantly searching for the right man, having failed at so many relationships.
14 November 2013
A journalist investigates a woman with the name of China Doll. Soon, he discovers his knowledge of her turns out to be dangerous.
