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Roeder Camanag

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    FROM WHAT IS BEFORE

    LAV DIAZ Philippines, 2014

    Lav’s Golden Leopard winner in Locarno is an epic remembrance of a period of transition that marked the traumatic time of dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ rule. The film’s structure unfurls with slow power, growing increasingly complex, political, and emotional over its five-and-a-half hour story.

    HEREMIAS (BOOK ONE: THE LEGEND OF THE LIZARD PRINCESS)

    LAV DIAZ Philippines, 2006

    Filipino director Lav Diaz immerses us in the life and experience of Heremias, so beset by the corruption and troubles endemic to Philippine society. A saga of a modern Jeremiah, A modern parable told with angry compassion.

    CENTURY OF BIRTHING

    LAV DIAZ Philippines, 2011

    Like some of the best 19th-century novelists, Lav Diaz is a genius at interweaving multiple stories to create a truly expanded canvas of characters, landscapes and social and political struggle. In this masterpiece, three strands oppose each other and then, in an impressive arc, fall into parallel.

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