Lav Diaz short film competes in Germany

Yes, Lav Diaz also makes short films.

After winning the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale for the eight-hour epic, “Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis,” Diaz will vie for top honors at the 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany, May 5 to 10.

Diaz’s 16-minute film, “Ang Araw Bago ang Wakas,” will compete with two other works, Laure Prouvost’s “If It Was” (France) and Salla Tykka’s “Retrospective” (Finland), in the fest’s inaugural edition.

According to the fest’s website, Diaz’s film features “ordinary people reciting passages from Shakespeare… in a city at night, as the country braces for a raging tempest.” Bayani San Diego Jr.