Cannes: With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan. Should the nine-hour version eventually emerge for public ...

The Film Academy of the Philippines has selected Lav Diaz's Magellan as the country’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Magellan was chosen from a pool of ...

Weighing in at a mere 160 minutes, in saturated color to balance out its aesthetic severity, this stark epic is among the Filipino auteur's shortest and most approachable films. Which is to say that ...

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. “Magellan,” ...

Lav Diaz‘s “Magellan” has been selected as the Philippines’ submission for the best international feature film category at the 98th Academy Awards, the Film Academy of the Philippines has revealed.