Lav Diaz Movies

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...

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward...

1617, Las Islas Filipinas. The Spanish friar, Father Enciso, the encomendero of one of the islands, rules with unrelenting toughness and an...

A poet hearkens back to his Philippine village after years abroad in Europe. Horrified to discover that the community has been buried under...

One of the Philippines' top investigators, Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, faces a deep moral crossroads. As a firsthand witness of the murderous...

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...

In a sophisticated near perfect society, citizens live with paper bags on heads to dissolve differences. Tensions rise when the whispers of a...

A wandering peddler suddenly decides to separates from his group of travellers, his reasons are unknown and the dangers will be many.

This biographical documentary honors Doy del Mundo’s lifelong devotion to education, film, and public service; his pioneering role in shaping...

Spanning from 1971 to 1987, in rural areas under the Marcos regime, a poor farming family struggle to overcome challenges brought on by corruption...

Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining...

Stories abound in Cebu about a woman rumored to be a murderous monster, but behind the myth is a mother seeking justice.

Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial rule. This eight-hour epic examines this...

With the imminent death of his autocratic grandfather, coinciding with the burgeoning oppressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Servando Monzon III,...

Faced with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, ethically conflicted police lieutenant Hermes Papauran...

After three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was...

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...

When a Filipino teen is found fatally shot on the streets of New Jersey, the investigation into his death reveals the struggles of the...

In Frankfurt, Lailani, now 65, awaits a plane to Manila. She's returning home to the Philippines for the first time in 30 years. En route, she delays...

Lieutenant Ines Horta, one of the finest detectives in Lisbon, investigates a mystery with the help of Sergeant Mariana Moura. Hoping for information...