One of the best Cannes 2025 films: Asian director Lav Diaz and Gael Garcia Bernal debunk the myth of the great navigator. Russian premiere as part of the contemporary programme of the Festival of Films Regained.
Magellan
- Date:
- 28 Sep 2025,
19:00–22:00
- Age restrictions
- 18+
Magalhães
2025, Lav Diaz
Portugal–Spain–Philippines–France–Taiwan
165 minutes, Portuguese with Russian subtitles
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Ângela Ramos, Amado Arjay Babon, Ronnie Lazaro
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After falling out with the king of Portugal, the navigator Ferdinand Magellan travels to Madrid. The Spanish ruler wants him to open a new sea route to the archipelagos of the Pacific. By the time Magellan achieves this goal, he will no longer be the same: ideas of equality and respect for indigenous people will be replaced by the ambitions of a ruthless colonizer.
Shot form Magellan, 2025
A hypnotizing historical and spiritual epic that’s immersive in a way that few decades-spanning stories successfully pull off.
— Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire
The film confutes the myth of the European explorers’ greatness as thoroughly as it is spectacular: vivid and rich in dramatic events, including mutinies, executions and large-scale battles.
