Norte, the End of History

OFFICIAL SUBMISSION TO THE 2015 ACADEMY AWARDS BY THE PHILIPPINES FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM. An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption. Lav Diaz’s epic reimagining of Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment" is both an intimate human drama and a cosmic treatise on the origin of evil. Unfolding across the sun drenched fields and dark city streets of the Filipino island of Luzon, NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY bears the weight and scope of today’s great television crime dramas, a tale of murder and redemption from one of the world’s most uncompromising cinematic visionaries.