Essential Truths of the Lake

Program:

Special Events

Year:

2023

Country:

Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Taiwan, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

215’

Faced with Philippine President Duterte's bloody murders and brazen lies, Lt. Hermes Papauran continues his struggle to find resolution to a 15-year-old case around a volcanic ash laden landscape and an impenetrable lake. It has become a cross he can barely carry but keeps lugging anyway. His survival then is in perpetuating the pain.

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Lav Diaz

Lavrente Indico Diaz aka Lav Diaz is a Philipine filmmaker born in 1958. He is especially notable for the length of his work, his films not being governed by time but by space and nature. His work mostly deals with the social and political struggles of his motherland. Since 1998 he has directed eighteen films, and won numerous international awards including the Locarno Film Festival Pardo d’oro with FROM WHAT IS BEFORE (2014), the Berlinale Alfred Bauer Award with A LULLABY TO THE SORROWFUL MYSTERY (2016) and the Venice Golden Lion with THE WOMAN WHO LEFT (2016).

Фільмографія: When the Waves are Gone (2022), Season of the Devil (2018), The Woman Who Left (2016), A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), From What is Before (2014), Norte, the End of History (2013), Woman of the Wind (2011), Butterflies Have No Memories (2009), Melancholia (2008), Death in the Land of Encantos (2007), Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess (2006), Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), West Side Kid (2001)

Creative team

Director

Lav Diaz

Screenplay

Lav Diaz

Camera

Lav Diaz, Larry Manda

Editing

Lav Diaz

Sound Design

Corinne De San Jose

Production