The director and star reveal why the "hero" of the Philippines was actually a myth, how historical records lied about the ...

At the last New York Film Festival, an edition featuring megawatt celebrities like Julia Roberts and star-studded films like Jay Kelly, it was heartening to see the slow cinema auteur Lav Diaz—far ...

With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand ...

Gael Garcia Bernal is alluring in Slow Cinema pioneer Lav Diaz's unconventional biopic, which deromanticizes the brutal ...

Magellan by Lav Diaz, a historical biopic starring Gael García Bernal, was featured in the Cannes Première lineup for 2025 ...

Exploration fuels many of humanity’s most important scientific and artistic pursuits. But in Lav Diaz’s decidedly unromantic “Magellan,” the promise of the horizon can’t save a crew in peril from the ...

Director Lav Diaz presents an epic, granular depiction of transoceanic travel and colonialist misadventure in an absorbing ...

Filipino slow cinema legend Lav Diaz directs Gael García Bernal to his best-ever performance in this anti-biopic of Ferdinand ...

Sales agency Luxbox has come on board Lav Diaz’s historical drama “Magellan,” which stars Gael García Bernal. The film will have its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival’s Premiere section. Diaz’s ...

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 festival ...

Gael García Bernal plays the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in Lav Diaz’s portrait of a brutal adventurer and his travels across ...