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The slump for Philippine entries at the Oscars continues as "Magellan" was not in the 15-film shortlist for the Best International Feature Film category.

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So deeply ingrained in the psyche of the colonized are the tropes of former colonizers, such that it takes more than a literal sea change to exorcise all past ghosts, short of rewriting history itself at the risk of perpetuating a cancelled culture.

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Lav Diaz's film about the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan will arrive on Philippine shores this September.

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Seven films are in consideration to be the Philippines' entry to the 2026 Academy Awards.

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Celebrity couple Toni Gonzaga and Paul Soriano attended the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Lav Diaz's "Magellan" starring Gael Garcia Bernal as the titular Portuguese explorer.

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Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers and questions the existence of a national resistance hero.

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