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When the Rain Ended

When the Rain Ended

Nang Matapos ang Ulan

Lav Diaz | Philippines | 2006 | 7' |

| IFFR 2007

It rains as it can only rain in the tropics. The camera shelters in a small shop and looks at the door. After a lengthy hesitation, someone ventures outside, where a muddy surface awaits. A melancholy moment in distant Sagada in the north east of the Philippines; the land of the legendary Igorot tribes. The film maker speaks a poem with his film poem.

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