Marta Balaga Lav Diaz is “concerned” about the situation in his native Philippines. But it doesn’t mean he will stop making films. “If you do any kind of cultural work, you can be branded as a ‘communist’ and it’s a reason for them to kill you,” he says. “There aren’t many venues to show my films, so we basically give them away for free. Listen, I am aware of the danger. But you have to accept the reality, confront these issues and continue to make things. And be careful, because we know what happened to Salman Rushdie.”
