From What Is Before

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Lav Diaz

Status Released

Release Date 2014-07-03

Storyline

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.

"Memories of cataclysm."