Lav Diaz
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Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino filmmaker, actor, and former film critic. He is known as one of the key names of the slow cinema genre, directing a diverse range of long narrative films that explor
Diaz at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Diaz in 2016
The Woman Who Left
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The Woman Who Left is a 2016 Philippine drama film written, produced, directed, and edited by Lav Diaz. Starring Charo Santos-Concio in her first film since her return to acting after she stepped down
Lav Diaz
…section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Diaz received further accolades with From What Is Before (2014), A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), and The Woman Who Left (2016). He is a recipient of 2018's FAMAS Lifetime Achievement Award and 2021's Natatanging Gawad Urian (Gawad Urian Lifetime Achievement Award). Diaz's…
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