GENEVA: A five-and-a-half-hour film from the Philippines, From What Is Before, scooped the coveted Golden Leopard prize at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland yesterday.
Clocking in at 338 minutes, the black-and-white film from director Lav Diaz beat 16 other films to the festival’s top prize.
From What Is Before recounts the strange events that befall an isolated village in the Philippines in 1972 during the era of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, when brutal militias roamed the countryside.
The runner-up Special Jury Prize went to Listen up Philip by US director Alex Ross Perry.
AFP
