1972年在菲律宾的一个偏远乡村发生了许多神秘事件。森林里传来哭泣声、母牛被砍死、在田间发现流血死去的男人、许多房屋被烧毁。军事行动越来越普遍，残忍的民兵统治着乡村。费迪南德·E·马科斯宣布1081号公告命令，实行全国戒严。

一个男人因为凶杀案含冤入狱，而真正的凶手则逍遥法外。凶手是一位文人，对祖国接连不断发生的背叛事件和人心冷漠而感到心寒。身陷囹圄的男人在遇到一些奇怪神秘的事件后，感到牢狱生活似乎不再那么难以忍受。

本片深入研究了人性——也许是我们动物性冲动的进化。雨果岛是菲律宾群岛中一个被上帝遗弃的岛屿，在这里只有很少的好事发生：日本占领者在二战中建立了一个强迫妓女的营地，现在矿工们为了微薄的收入在泥泞中拼搏。其中三个人于是开始寻找更好的生活。但在旅途中他们发现，人类的历史就是一部暴力的谱系。片名指的是动物世界中我们最亲密的表亲之一黑猩猩的动物学名称。

A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion of his film and with greedy film festival programmers. And one about a religious leader. Also a little like Diaz himself?
The films of Lav Diaz often tell serious epic stories, but they are still not entirely free from humour and satire. For instance in this film, Diaz takes the mickey out of festival programmers and also sketches a picture of himself that is not entirely free from self-mockery.
The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, there’s another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues.
By telling the stories in parallel, similarities become visible between Homer’s struggle with cinema and Turbico's struggle with faith.

In the year 2050, the Philippines brace for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets are being murdered.
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The Day Before The End won the Principal Prize at the 2016 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The jury cited it as “a work of political urgency. Made by an artist known for works that unfold over many hours, this short film is both elaborate and succinct.”

二十九年的监狱生涯终于完结，海明尼哲度返回自己熟悉的地方。他要取回失去的财富、土地，及爱情，并杀死一个偷走他一切的人——他的挚友。

The Philippines, 1974: as Marcos’ oppressive regime becomes increasingly entrenched after he imposed martial law in 1972, Servando Monzon III, heir to his powerful clan’s hacienda and family business, refuses to capitulate to the dictator’s plans to control the country. In this adaptation of Ricardo Lee’s short story and screenplay Servando Magdamag, Lav Diaz, the unrelenting and incisive prober of Philippine history’s shadowy areas, offers a film of epic proportions. The aim, as unequivocally indicated by the title, is nothing less than to scrutinise Filipino violence and explore its roots from Spanish colonisation to the present day. Feudalism and power struggles are closely examined. Borne aloft by a remarkable cast – John Lloyd Cruz in the main role is a huge television and film star in the Philippines – this “sine novela”, according to the opening credits, mixes up the codes of the telenovela with Lav Diaz’ ostensibly very different filmmaking. The story unfolds of the mutual relationships of a profusion of characters over time, shot in the sumptuous black and white that is now the stuff of most of his movies. The filmmaker himself frames these magnificent shots that stretch out, sensuous experiences of living tableaux attentive to the bodies set in a place as well as to the languages used, to the inner movements and down-time. In this film that’s both a tragic saga set in the past and the tale of an “endless nightmare”, Diaz takes on a dual allegorical dimension – the figures of the philosopher and the blind man – and an informative one, like the revolutionary education meetings that pepper the story. This “tale of violence” is also an epic with very contemporary resonances, as the recent election to the presidency of another Marcos, a devoted son of the previous president, reminds us. (Nicolas Feodoroff)
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「高等人和低等人的分别，就在于前者无惧于和随时准备挑战不幸。」尼采如是说。拉夫狄亚兹镜前的罪恶克星干探虽非此中信徒，却百分百锲而不舍，坚持向前菲律宾总统杜特尔特的血腥手腕和谎言政治说不。前作《涌浪之后》突破扫毒梦魇，勇探今回要重启一宗沉埋十五年的悬案，追查有「菲律宾飞鹰」之称的艺术家运动分子死因。荒地迷湖，人性难辨；实时进行的长篇叙事，令观众如亲历案情披示，渐悟即或没有破不掉的罪案，仍有绵绵不绝的遗憾和痛苦。

Hilarion Zabala, a former master sergeant, is tormented by a strange smell. The diagnosis is phantosmia, i.e. olfactory hallucinations, where he perceives smells that do not actually exist. His doctor attributes this to past trauma and recommends that he confront and recall his dark military service period as a solution. Zabala, willing to take on any task, voluntarily visits a military base and is eventually assigned to a remote island penal colony. However, another horrific reality awaits him there.
From religious bloodshed to human rights abuses against women, the various forms of violence created by humans are still structurally and routinely pervasive. How can justice and salvation be achieved in an age of violence? Can violence used to prevent violence ever be justified? Deep anguish is reflected through the contemplative black-and-white imagery. (BOO Kyunghwan)

拉夫·迪亚兹将执导新片[麦哲伦](Magellan，暂译)。影片讲述一群菲律宾人前往葡萄牙，追寻葡萄牙探险家斐迪南·麦哲伦在葡萄牙北部的起源。本片将完全在葡萄牙拍摄。