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'Diaz not only reflects upon the Filipinos' struggle with nature, but also interrogates the sociocultural significance of 'storm' as it relates to the country's turbulent national history and psyche.' Senses of Cinema

'Storm Children finds Lav Diaz turning to non-fiction cinema, to document the devastation of the Philippine coastal town of Tacloban by Typhoon Haiyan (or Yolanda) in November 2013. Diaz follows three children as they weave their way in and around the aftermath of the destruction in search of food and friends. In spite of evidently dire circumstances, the children play amid the chaos and tragedy that surrounds them. The Philippines are battered annually by cyclones, but as so often in Diaz, the natural destruction serves to provoke a meditation on human suffering and to reveal governmental indifference to the lives of the poor.' Harvard Film Archive