Director: Lav Diaz

Release Year: 2025

Language: Portuguese with English subtitles

Starring: Amado Arjay Babon, Ângela Ramos, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Gael García Bernal, Ronnie Lazaro

Premiere Run!

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) navigated a fleet of ships to Southeast Asia, attempting the first voyage across the vast Pacific Ocean. On reaching the Malay Archipelago, the crew pushed to the brink of madness in the harshness of the high seas and overwhelming natural beauty of the islands, Magellan’s obsession leads to a rebellion and reckoning with the consequences of power. A vast, globe-spanning epic from Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz (NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY), MAGELLAN presents the colonization of the Philippines as a primal, shocking encounter with the unknown and a radical retelling of European narratives of discovery and exploration. – Janus Films

The spirit of slow cinema is alive and languid in this stunningly mounted, politically rigorous work… – Variety

Diaz’s confrontational film proves one of his most fascinating achievements: a hypnotizing historical and spiritual epic that’s immersive in a way that few decades-spanning stories successfully pull off. – IndieWire