Premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, 'Magellan' sees Gael García Bernal and Lav Diaz unite for an immersive epic.

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

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal ... The letters he sent to Magellan about the place would change the explorer's life. Back in Portugal, Magellan fell out of favour with the court.

Filipino auteur Lav Diaz returned to the Cannes Film Festival as Magellan (Magalhães), his historical opus on the famed ...

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

Cannes, France—Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by ...

They argue that Ferdinand Magellan, the commander of the first successful expedition around ... with the name of the Portuguese sailor and explorer, Ferdinand Magellan. The authors of this ...

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

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus. You must enable JavaScript to play ...

April 26 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives of the Philippine Islands during his attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the ...

a 16th-century tribal chieftain in the Philippines known to have slain the famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Who is Lapu-Lapu, and why is he being celebrated by Filipino migrants in ...

Then we travel forward in time to 1519 to meet Ferdinand Magellan, who was responsible for the first circumnavigation of the globe. The song is 'Over the oceans' - a celebration of the ...