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

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

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

In two portraits of seafaring religious zealots, the directors Lav Diaz and Mona Fastvold employ bold formal devices to hold ...

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 ...

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

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

The historical epic, which premiered in Cannes last year, is getting a limited theatrical release in the US from January 9 ...

An acclaimed new film dramatises the pioneering voyage of the world-famous Portuguese navigator – a trailblazer who has been ...

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