Locarno Film Festival

Lavrente Indico Diaz aka Lav Diaz is a Philipine filmmaker born in 1958. He is especially notable for the length of his work, his films not being governed by time but by space and nature. His work mostly deals with the social and political struggles of his motherland. Since 1998 he has directed eighteen films, and won numerous international awards including the Locarno Film Festival Pardo d’oro with From What Is Before (2014), the Berlinale Alfred Bauer Award with A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016) and the Venice Golden Lion with The Woman Who Left (2016).

Lavrente Indico Diaz, nome d’arte Lav Diaz, è un regista filippino nato nel 1958. È noto per la lunga durata dei suoi film, governati non dal tempo ma dallo spazio e dalla natura. I temi che affronta solitamente sono le battaglie politiche e sociali del suo paese d’origine. Dal 1998 ha diretto 18 film e vinto numerosi premi internazionali, fra cui il Pardo d’oro a Locarno con Mula sa kung ano ang noon (From What Is Before, 2014), il Premio Alfred Bauer alla Berlinale con Hele sa hiwagang hapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, 2016) e il Leone d’oro a Venezia con Ang babaeng humayo (The Woman Who Left, 2016).

Filmografia

2022 Kapag wala nang mga alon (When the Waves are Gone)
2020 Lahi, hayop (Genus Pan)
2019 Ang hupa (The Halt)
2018 Ang panahon ng halimaw (Season of the Devil)
2016 Ang babaeng humayo (The Woman Who Left)
2016 Hele sa hiwagang hapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery)
2014 Mula sa kung ano ang noon (From What is Before)
2013 Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan (Norte, the End of History)
2012 Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
2011 Century of Birthing
2011 Babae ng hangin (Woman of the Wind)
2009 Visitors (Butterflies Have No Memories)
2008 Melancholia
2007 Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos)
2006 Heremias, unang aklat: ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak (Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Legend of the Lizard Princess)
2004 Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino Family)
2002 Hesus rebolusyunaryo (Jesus, Revolutionnary)
2001 Batang West Side (West Side Kid)
1999 Hubad sa ilalim ng buwan (Naked Under the Moon)
1999 Burger Boys
1998 Serafin Geronimo: kriminal ng barrio concepcion (Criminal of Barrio Concepcion)

Registi

Film Sections

Lav Diaz

Altri film

Concorso internazionale

Essential Truths of the Lake