NEW YORK CITY—The world of Lav Diaz is one where cinema and conscience often collide. His latest film, Magellan, continues that tradition, and this time the collision cuts deeper than ever. Days after ...

Lav Diaz's "Magellan," the Philippines' entry to Oscars 2026, has been making its rounds in international film festivals. The film was most recently shown in New York, where the award-winning Filipino ...

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MANILA, Philippines — Award-winning director Lav Diaz "seriously" believes Kapamilya star Vice Ganda has a chance at defeating Vice President Sara Duterte in the next presidential polls. Diaz appeared ...

Carrying the country’s hopes, Lav Diaz’s “Magellan” has been chosen to represent the Philippines at the 98th Academy Awards (Oscars) in the best international feature film category, after fulfilling ...

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 ...

Filipino director Lav Diaz is in pre-production with “An Amazon,” following the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival of “Magellan,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal. The project will be shot in ...

The 160-minute feature depicts the decade of devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific. By Jordan Mintzer If “Gael Garcia Bernal as Magellan” sounds to you like a pretty cool ...

When Lav Diaz emerged for the premiere of Magellan at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, he was wearing the soul of a country. Draped in a hand-embroidered ensemble by Renee Salud, Diaz’s appearance ...

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 first official image has been unveiled of acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz in “The Sacrifice,” a psychological horror film currently in production in the Philippines. The award-winning ...

The Cannes Premiere title is a departure for Diaz in several respects: by his usually super-spare standards, Magellan is handsomely mounted; it is one of his rare colour films; and it is his first ...