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The Day Before the End

Short Films and Mid-Lengths • 16m

Directed by Lav Diaz | 17 mins | 2016
Known for the titanic runtimes of his films, Diaz is also a master of the short form, as proven by The Day Before the End, a work of speculative, dystopian fiction set in the year 2050, as the people of the Philippines brace for an apocalyptic storm to thrash their homeland, and the streets of the nation’s cities run red with the blood of poets.

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