Official US Trailer for Lav Diaz’s ‘Magellan’ Starring Gael García Bernal

“A new route, our own route!” Janus Films has revealed the official US trailer for the acclaimed film titled Magellan, the latest very long film by Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz. This premiered to some top reviews at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year, and it also played at TIFF, NYFF, Busan, London, Vienna, and many other festivals around the world. At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (played fiercely by 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 & overwhelming natural beauty of the islands, Magellan’s obsession leads to a rebellion & reckoning with the consequences of power. A vast, globe-spanning epic from award-winning master Lav Diaz, 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. A powerful and gorgeously cinematic look at how horrible (religious) colonialism was back then, and how he eventually reaped what he sowed being killed in the Philippines while trying to convert them to Christianity. // Continue Reading ›