THE WOMAN WHO LEFT

Script - Lav Diaz

Director - Lav Diaz

Camera - Lav Diaz

Cast - Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa, Nonie Bencamino, Shamaine Buencamino

Producer - Lav Diaz

Production - Sine Olivia Pilipinas, Cinema One Originals

Released in 1997 after spending 30 years in prison, Horacia (Charo Santos-Concio) encounters a very alien world: her husband has passed away and though she has reconnected with her daughter, she cannot find her son. But she soon recognizes what hasn't changed: the power and privilege of the elites – a fact that is brought painfully home when she realizes that her aristocratic former lover, Rodrigo Trinidad, set her up for the crime for which she was imprisoned. Ironically, he is now something of a prisoner himself, though his cage is considerably more gilded: like his other rich friends, he is housebound due to a recent rash of kidnappings targeting the wealthy. While they are entirely irrelevant to Horacia and those she befriends, for the ruling class the kidnapping incidents represent the greatest crisis in the country's history. Horacia takes advantage of this hysteria as she begins to plot her revenge.

“Lav Diaz has dissected Filipino history with exhaustive and clinical precision, unearthing the currents that have shaped the country today. With his new film The Woman Who Left, Diaz offers an incisive study of the distance between rich and poor, past and present.“

Steve Gravestock, Toronto International Film Festival

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Venice '16 – Golden Lion

Program

19.03.2017
”LUMIERE LIDL” CINEMA - 16.00 часа
27.03.2017
CINEMA ODEON - 18.30 часа

Lav Diaz

Lav Diaz was born in Datu Paglas, Philippines. He began with three films of standard duration: The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion (1998), Burger Boys (1999) and Naked Under the Moon (1999). Starting with the five-hour long West Side Avenue (2001), possibly his masterpiece, he began to specialize in the epic-length format. His longest film so far is Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004) with more than 11 hours length. In 2016 From What Is Before is nominated for Golden Bear in Berlin, and The Woman Who Left won the Golden Lion in Venice the same year.

FILMOGRAPHY

1998 The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion (Serafin Geronimo: Ang kriminal ng Baryo Concepcion)
1999 Burger Boys
1999 Naked Under the Moon (Hubad sa ilalim ng buwan)
2001 West Side Avenue (Batang West Side)
2002 Hesus, rebolusyunaryo
2004 Evolution of a Filipino Family (Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino)
2006 Heremias: Unang aklat – Ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak
2007 Death in the Land of Encantos (Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto)
2008 Melancholia
2009 Purgatorio – short
2009 Butterflies Have No Memories – short
2011 Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (Elehiya sa dumalaw mula sa himagsikan)
2011 Century of Birthing (Siglo ng pagluluwal)
2012 Florentina Hubaldo, CTE
2012 An Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget (Pagsisiyasat sa gabing ayaw lumimot) – doc.
2013 Norte, the End of History (Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan)
2013 Prologue to the Great Desaparecido (Prologo sa ang dakilang desaparacido) – short
2013 Ang alitaptap – short
2014 From What is Before (Mula sa kung ano ang noon)
2014 Storm Children: Book One (Mga anak ng unos) – doc.
2015 Fragment
2016 A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Hele sa hiwagang hapis)
2016 Ang araw bago ang wakas – short
2016 The Woman Who Left (Ang babaeng humayo)

THE WOMAN WHO LEFT / ANG BABAENG HUMAYO

227′, 2016, Philippines, black and white

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

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