The Day Before the End
Three by Lav Diaz
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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.
Up Next in Three by Lav Diaz
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Storm Children
Directed by Lav Diaz | 143 mins | 2014
Diaz, in documentarian mode, sifts through the wreckage—human and otherwise—left behind following the devastating impact of typhoon Yolanda on the seaside city of Tacloban in this gorgeously shot black-and-white work, which focuses its attention on three chi... -
From What is Before
Directed by Lav Diaz | 338 mins | 2014
Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film at the Locarno film festival, Diaz’s down-to-earth epic, set in the 1970s, under the Marcos dictatorship, describes a chain of unusual and possibly supernatural phenomena as they affect a small Philippine country vi...
