Death in the Land of Encantos

A slow, haunting immersion in grief and landscape, where long takes and quiet devastation ask for patience and reward it with melancholy.

Created by

Lav Diaz

Genres

Drama, Documentary

Starring

Roeder Camanag, Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon

Overview

Kagadanan sa Banwaan Ning mga Engkanto (English: Death in the Land of Encantos) is a 2007 Filipino television miniseries created and written by Lav Diaz. The five-episode drama would be edited into a nine-hour feature released in 2013. Philippine poet Benjamin Agusan hearkens back to his village Padang after seven years in Europe. Horrified to discover that the community has been buried under landslides, he wanders the countryside, reconnecting with friends, lovers, and family whose lives teeter on the brink of destruction.

How it feels

Melancholic, bleak, earnest and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Grief, isolation, memory, survival

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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