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

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

My students find me weird because in the age of Google and Waze, I continue to be intrigued by physical maps of the ...

In 1521, when his galleon finally cut through the treacherous Pacific Ocean, when the island of Cebu first appeared in his sight at the edge of the horizon, when its slender coconut trees and thatched ...

Gael Garcia Bernal, the award-winning actor whose presence in Quezon Province was kept a secret, may fly back to the ...

Lav Diaz's "Magellan" which was presented at the 78th Cannes Film Festival as part of its Cannes Premiere Selection earned a ...

Lav Diaz. Portugal/Spain/France/Philippines/Taiwan 2025. 160mins. The illusions and indignities of European colonial history ...

Every cinephile and film industry observer knows that the Cannes Film Festival is a make-or-break event, where audiences ...

In this battle, the chieftain (or Datu) of the Mactan island, Lapulapu, defeated Spanish forces under Ferdinand Magellan ... Venetian scholar and Magellan’s assistant Antonio Pigafetta. In fact, it ...

Magellan is widely credited for leading the first circumnavigation of the globe. In 1521, he reached the islands that would later become the Philippines. He supposedly allied with Rajah Humabon ...

READ: Car plows through Vancouver Filipino festival, killing at least 11 The festival, celebrated especially in the central Philippines, honors Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chieftain who famously ...

April 27, 1521, marked the first successful resistance against colonial rule in the Philippines. Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, leading Spanish forces, attempted to subdue the island’s ...