Liryc Dela Cruz

From What Is Before

Lav Diaz

Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.

Notes from Unknown Maladies

Liryc Dela Cruz

The filmmaker went back to his hometown to make a touching portrait of his sick grandmother. 94-year-old Concepcion has been suffering from nervous breakdown for the past 50 years. She chooses to live alone and is haunted by random memories of the past: a memory of a nation and other life’s mysteries. Now, she faces a new period in her life as she slowly loses the capacity to remember.

The Ebb of Forgetting

Liryc Dela Cruz

Dream and memory of two sisters meet, as one grieves for the death of her sister while the other tries to let go of her memories.

Prologo sa Ang Dakilang Desaparecido

Lav Diaz

Hazel Orencio, Archie Alemania

Andrés Bonifacio, the freedom fighter known as the father of the Philippine revolution, was executed by rival revolutionaries in 1897. His wife, Gregoria de Jesus, searched for his body in the mountains for 30 days. It was never found.

On Endings

Liryc Dela Cruz

Filmmaker’s intimate statement from isolation, in which he reads letters from a mother longing for her son, whom she has not seen for four years.