改编自同名短片。
In a sophisticated near perfect society 'Schirkoa', where citizens live with paper bags on their heads to dissolve differences, nomadic free thinkers have developed physical anomalies and are banished to live as refugees in an eerie separate state. A fresh council member bag-head number 197A accidentally sparks a revolution in Schirkoa and flees to the forbidden refuge...
When asked what drives a man to search for the truth, Lieutenant Papauran says dejectedly that maybe he just wants to keep inflicting pain on himself. Faced with President Duterte’s bloody murders and brazen lies, he continues his struggle to solve a fifteen-year-old case around an ash-laden landscape and an impenetrable lake. It has become a cross he can barely carry but keeps...
The Philippines is visited by an average of twenty to twenty eight strong typhoons and storms every year. It is the most storm-battered country in the world. Last year, Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), considered the strongest storm in history, struck the Philippines, leaving in its path apocalyptic devastation.
因为今年是威尼斯电影节70周年华诞,陈可辛与贝托鲁奇、金基德、贾樟柯等全球知名导演,以“重启未来(Future Reload)”为题,拍摄了70部短片,向威尼斯电影节“祝寿”。28日当地时间22时,这70部短片正式播出。
Erwin ROMULO, the late Alexis TIOSECO’s best friend, recalls the events of TIOSECO and his girlfriend’s untimely death. DIAZ makes use of one long take to allow ROMULO an uninterrupted narration of the events. The pain of recalling is palpable. ROMULO is transformed into a classic DIAZ protagonist, a man who is continuously burdened by the irrationalities of the society.
Not so much a documentary, nor a compendium of interviews, but an almost rarefied glimpse into a wholesale revolt from a rigid paradigm long upheld by the west as the only way to make a film.
On an island far from the main land of the Philippines, islanders who used to be wealthy go through economic difficulties when a goldmine company withdraws from the area. Ferding, Santos and Willy only drink in despair. One day, a Canadian woman’s visit changes everything.... Through the expression of the contradictory nature of the prosperity development brings and the environ...
In his trailer for the Viennale, THE BOY WHO CHOSE THE EARTH, Lav Diaz tells the story of a boy who has aspirations – he educates himself and forges plans. One day there’s a knock on the door, someone leaves and he is literally left out in the rain. Thunder cracks and lightning flashes, water pelts down and engulfs everything. Incredulously, the boy looks up to the heavens – is...
Those who fought for independence in the Philippines die off, and the leader of the political movement disappears. Those left behind fall in despair, and the lost souls of the dead roam the earth. The voice of the vanished leaves a small line of hope in this futile world. This is the beginning of Lav Diaz’s epic poem depicting despair and hope.