Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s feature about devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific debuted in Cannes.

After premiering out of competition at Cannes, writer-director Lav Diaz’s historical drama Magellan, starring Gael García ...

Premiering in Cannes, where Diaz’s most awarded film, Norte, the End of History, played in Un Certain Regard back in 2013, ...

Magellan, the latest film of Filipino director Lav Diaz (inset, with shades), premiered at the 2025 Cannes International Film ...

One day, he sent me an e-mail,” said producer Paul Soriano, recounting how he came on board “Magellan,” Lav Diaz’s latest ...

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers ...

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers and questions the existence of a national resistance hero.

Lav Diaz's historical drama stars Gael García Bernal and premiered out of competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers and questions the existence of a national resistance hero.

If “Gael Garcia Bernal as Magellan” sounds to you like a pretty cool Netflix series, you have never seen a film by Filipino auteur and slow-cinema master Lav Diaz. Known on the international ...

Gael Garcia Bernal, the award-winning actor whose presence in Quezon Province was kept a secret, may fly back to the Philippines as Lav Diaz’s latest opus receives high acclaim in Cannes Gael ...