Lav Diaz works as director, writer, producer, editor, cinematographer, poet, composer, production designer and actor all at once. His films are not governed by time but by space and nature. His films are about the social and political struggles of his motherland and
through these. In 2013, his film Norte, The End of History is presented at Un Certain regard Cannes Film Festival and acclaimed by the critics. Ang Babaeng Humayo (The Woman Who Left) bagged the Golden Lion Prize in the Venice International Film Festival 2019.
