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Release: June 24, 2025

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel (Yul Servo), shot dead one winter night on West Side Ave, police detective Juan Mijares (Joel Torres) plumbs the depths of the Filipino youth gangs of Jersey city who trade in shabu – crystal meth. Talking to the boy’s mother, remarried to an American; to his grandfather, an ex-soldier as well as to his American-born girlfriend, bigger questions emerge: what dark history has pushed so many Filipinos to migrate to this wintry land? Why are these the conditions of their children? Out of what past does this detective emerge? Shot on 16mm under duress at the freezing turn of the millennium by a young, fearless Lav Diaz (Norte, The End of History), BATANG WEST SIDE remains a timeless epic about Filipino immigration over generations. Diaz’s sole film shot in the United States, and the longest film to be made by a Southeast Asia director at the time, Diaz does not shy away from the power of cumulative answers, revealed intricately over the course of the kind epic runtime and Dostoyevskian themes that would become hallmarks in the oeuvre of the Filipino master. Bonus Features: 1. 2K Restoration 2. Interview with director Lav Diaz (13mins, 2024) 3. Interview with actor Joel Torre (20mins, 2024) 4. Interview with actor Gloria Diaz (10mins, 2024) 5. Interview with actor Art Acuña (15mins, 2024) 6. Interview with actor Priscilla Viduya (8mins, 2024) 7. Booklet with archival writing by critic Alexis Tioseco and writer Gil Quito with archival photographs by Cesar Hernando 8. New art by Tom Estrera III Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Batang West Side [Blu-ray]

Release: June 24, 2025

$7.99

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!* Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel (Yul Servo), shot dead one winter night on West Side Ave, police detective Juan Mijares (Joel Torres) plumbs the depths of the Filipino youth gangs of Jersey city who trade in shabu – crystal meth. Talking to the boy’s mother, remarried to an American; to his grandfather, an ex-soldier as well as to his American-born girlfriend, bigger questions emerge: what dark history has pushed so many Filipinos to migrate to this wintry land? Why are these the conditions of their children? Out of what past does this detective emerge? Shot on 16mm under duress at the freezing turn of the millennium by a young, fearless Lav Diaz (Norte, The End of History), BATANG WEST SIDE remains a timeless epic about Filipino immigration over generations. Diaz’s sole film shot in the United States, and the longest film to be made by a Southeast Asia director at the time, Diaz does not shy away from the power of cumulative answers, revealed intricately over the course of the kind epic runtime and Dostoyevskian themes that would become hallmarks in the oeuvre of the Filipino master. Bonus Features: 1. 2K Restoration 2. Interview with director Lav Diaz (13mins, 2024) 3. Interview with actor Joel Torre (20mins, 2024) 4. Interview with actor Gloria Diaz (10mins, 2024) 5. Interview with actor Art Acuña (15mins, 2024) 6. Interview with actor Priscilla Viduya (8mins, 2024) 7. Booklet with archival writing by critic Alexis Tioseco and writer Gil Quito with archival photographs by Cesar Hernando 8. New art by Tom Estrera III Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Batang West Side [Blu-ray]

Release: June 24, 2025

$6.99

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*This listing is for the standard edition version and does NOT come with a limited edition slipcase!*

Release: June 23, 2026

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A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Lav Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Discovery. Elegantly minimalist yet overpowering in its scale and impact, Magellan follows the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) as he embarks on his epochal quest to cross the Pacific—a voyage that spirals into zealotry and violence when he attempts to impose Christianity upon the people of the Philippines. Abetted by García Bernal’s radically antiheroic portrayal, Diaz composes a stark vision of the brutality at the heart of European conquest and a haunting elegy for a lost precolonial past. INCLUDES Meet the Filmmakers: Lav Diaz, a Criterion Channel original interview Trailer Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza

Release: January 23, 2018

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Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, The Woman Who Left is an epic story of revenge that spans decades of Philippine history. After 30 years in prison, Horacia (CHARO SANTOS-CANCIO) discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and the transformative discovery of the man who framed her. Inspired by Tolstoy and directed with patience and poetry by the great Lav Diaz (Norte, the End of History), The Woman Who Left is a sensitive and transcendent expression of family and forgiveness. Special Features: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette, Booklet essay by Gil Quito, Trailer Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews The Woman Who Left [Blu-ray]