NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY is a careful rethinking of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment shot in blazing color, this tour de force offers a masterful recapitulation of director Lav Diaz’s longstanding obsessions: cultural memory, national guilt, and the origin of evil. The wounds and defeats of Filipino history loom large in each of Diaz’s films. An official selection of the 51st New York Film Festival, Norte, the End of History opens exclusively for one week at the Film Society of Lincoln Center on Friday, June 20, 2014. The director will be in-person for opening weekend, and is also available for interviews.

In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. At their best, Lav Diaz’s marathon movies reveal just how much other films leave out. In his devastating twelfth feature (and at four-plus hours, one of his shortest), the broad canvas accommodates both the irreducible facts of individual experience and the cosmic sweep of time and space. Fabian, Norte’s tortured antihero (superbly played by Sid Lucero), may well be his most indelible creation: a haunting embodiment of the dead ends of ideology. A Cinema Guild release.

Director – Lav Diaz: Written By – Rody Vera, Lav Diaz; Produced By – Moira Lang 9Raymond Lee); Executive Producers – Kayan, Jessica Zafra, Origin8 Media; Cinematography – Larry Manda; Editing – Lav Diaz; Story – Rody Vera, Michiko Yamamoto, Raymond Lee;

Philippines/Not Rated/250m/DCP/Tagalog with English subtitles/Stereo 5.1/Color/Anamorphic 2.40:1 (scope)/2013 ‘)}