A Tale of Filipino Violence
Lav DIAZ Philippines 412 mins NC16 (Mature Content and Some Violence) Southeast Asian Premiere
FILM SYNOPSIS
A poignant family saga examining how a nation’s historical trauma fuels the repetition of its dictatorial past.
A feudal heir struggles with his family’s history of exploitation and political opportunism. As the state seeks to monopolise their business, he is torn between securing his workers’ future and cooperating with Marcos’s regime. Meanwhile, his brother-in-law secretly recruits the workers to the rebel cause, drawing the military’s attention, whose presence on the estate triggers recollections of long-buried secrets.
Lav Diaz returns with an examination of generational trauma and its influence on his nation’s political developments. A rich, nuanced portrait of interlocking fates in Marcos-era Philippines, the film also serves as an allegory for the fraught conscience of a nation now ruled by its former dictator’s son.
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Lav DIAZ
Lav DIAZ is an award-winning Filipino filmmaker. His breakthrough, Batang West Side, took Best Asian Feature at SGIFF 2002. He has since won Locarno’s Golden Leopard for From What Is Before (2014) and Venice’s Golden Lion for The Woman Who Left (2016). Both were screened at SGIFF, as were his recent films Genus Pan (2020) and History of Ha (2021).
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