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Women in Magellan (2025 🇵🇭), directed by Lav Diaz

RICO YAN and CLAUDINE BARRETTO in Got 2 Believe (2002), dir. Olivia Lamasan

“Although historically privileged perspectives have been so deeply embedded within history and by extension, pop culture, Magellan (2025, Lav Diaz) reminds us that victims of cultural injustice also have the ability to gaze back...” x

Before Magellan set out on his journey to the Philippines, he had purchased Enrique in the Malaysian city of Malacca and taken him back to Portugal. Upon their arrival in Mactan, Magellan's entourage was startled to discover Enrique spoke the native language – suggesting he was raised nearby. Some historians have even conjectured that, in returning to the region, Enrique may actually have ended up circumnavigating the globe before any of Magellan's crew. (x)

directed by Lav Diaz cinematography by Lav Diaz & Artur Tort

Magalhaes (Lav Diaz, 2025)

Lav Diaz on his film, Magellan (check screenings here)

Billie and Emma (2018) | dir. Samantha Lee

directed by Lav Diaz cinematography by Lav Diaz & Artur Tort