Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?

Magellan.2026.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-KyoGo.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 43 min
Size: 	11.2 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/CE6647A027F857E/Magellan.2026.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-KyoGo.mkv

Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

The post Lav Diaz – Magalhães AKA Magellan (2025) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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When a Filipino teenager is shot to death in New Jersey, a probe takes place and reveals the struggles of the Filipino community in the USA and the horrifying effects of methamphetamine on its youth.

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The first major epic in the oeuvre of Lav Diaz (b. 1958) is a powerful contemporary portrait of the Filipino diaspora in New York and New Jersey: A Filipino-born detective investigates the murder of Hanzel Harana, a Filipino teenager, and must plod along with tenacity to break through the wall of silence surrounding the boy’s death. The trail of the designer drug “shabu” runs through the film like a bloody trickle, but Diaz delegates the accounts of crime, domestic violence, and the discontent in the souls of his characters to the background for the most part, instead relying on the hypnotic portrait of a decaying life as a symbol of alienation from home. The more we learn about the protagonists, the more complex, intangible, and contradictory our image of them becomes.

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Runtime: 	5 h 1 min
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Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog, English
Subtitles:English, German

The post Lav Diaz – Batang West Side AKA West Side Avenue (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

PLOT: In 2013 typhoon Haiyan (also called Jolanda) hit Tacloban Island, causing the death of 7 thousand people. Few months later, Diaz visited the Island to film children lives.

Storm.Children.Book.One.2014.Lav.Diaz.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 22 min
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Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

The post Lav Diaz – Mga anak ng unos AKA Storm Children: Book One (2014)  first appeared on Cinema of the World.

PLOT: Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is at a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police forces, he is a first-hand witness of the murderous anti-drug campaign that his institution is implementing with dedication. The atrocities are corroding Hermes physically and spiritually, causing him a severe skin disease resulting from anxiety and guilt. As he tries to heal, a dark past haunts him and has eventually come back for a reckoning.

When.the.Waves.Are.Gone.2022.Lav.Diaz.1080p.WEBDL.AAC2.0.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	3 h 7 min
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#1:  	fil 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s

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Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:French, English

The post Lav Diaz – Kapag wala nang mga alon AKA When the Waves Are Gone (2022) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Taking leave from their jobs at a gold mine, three workers journey to their home village on foot through the spectacular yet unforgiving wilderness of the mythical island of Hugaw. As time passes and their conversations intensify, buried histories emerge and a sense of psychosis invades the scene. As ever, Lav Diaz’s exquisitely subdued black-and-white images and patient rhythm lend a Brechtian register to the drama; almost always filmed from the same fixed distance, each scene is an immaculate tableau vivant. Behind the film’s folkloric façade, Diaz once again taps into the collective memory of defiant struggles against the tyranny of both contemporary Filipino society and colonial brutality, centred on the timeless image of men walking – one of the key traits of Pan.

Lav Diaz wrote:
I once was asked to define man, the so-called human beings, supposedly the most superior inhabitant of planet Earth, and due to the moment’s urgency, for a quick reply, all I could muster was an animal simile (Man is an animal), and I felt terrible, I thought I fumbled, but then looking back now, it was in fact the better answer. Yes, in fact, man remains on that level, animal. And I came upon a discourse exactly on this matter: that despite us being the better developed species, most of us still retains the demeanor and comportment of the chimpanzee, the genus Pan, part of Hominidae, the great primate family. And, so, by nature, we are violent, aggressive, obsessive, transgressive, imposing, envious, territorial, narcissistic and egotistical, very much like our cousin, the genus Pan. But then, there’s hope, the study says that the human brain is still developing and once it has achieved full development, man shall be complete, a truly self- actualised species, altruistic, saintly and true, just like Buddha, Gandhi, Christ and the farmer, Mang Osting, who generously provides for my vegetarian needs. Thus, this film, Lahi, Hayop… it has always been my desire to make a film about animals; but, man as animals, man honestly acting like one, an animal, as he has been acting like an animal all his life anyway.

Genus.Pan.2020.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-TEPES.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 37 min
Size: 	10.7 GiB
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#1:  	fil 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/F910429D07B221C/Genus.Pan.2020.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-TEPES.mkv

Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:German, English, French, Portuguese, Turkish

The post Lav Diaz – Lahi, hayop AKA Genus Pan (2020) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc’s murder during a burglary in their home in Quezon City. Lav Diaz makes use of one long take to allow Romulo an uninterrupted narration of the events.

An.Investigation.on.the.Night.That.Wont.Forget.2012.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-Q0SWeb.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 10 min
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Language(s):English with some Tagalog
Subtitles:English hardcoded (non-English)

The post Lav Diaz – Pagsisiyasat sa gabing ayaw lumimot AKA An Investigation on the Night That Won’t Forget (2012) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A short film made for “Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded.”

The day will come

We shall set sail from the mysteries of mythologies
And i shall be singing hymns to set you free
All of the effort I put into 70 Hours Of Diaz and I somehow forgot that he had a short in Venice 70: Future Reloaded…

Outside of experimental affair like Let Your Light Shine or Brakhage’s hand painted affair where the film is 100% dedicated to an aesthetic and that’s what the film must be judged on alone it’s hard to muster the same enthusiasm on a narrative level you would for a 77 second short that you would for say, a 9 hour film for example.
GrimsChild (letterboxd)

I am mesmerized by the melancholic mood of this short/photograph with the old man and the perfect poem that resonates with it…fascinating and sobering.
Chilette Ann Lalog (letterboxd)

Ang alitaptap (Lav Diaz, 2013).mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/601C4F6840315EE/Ang_alitaptap_(Lav_Diaz,_2013).mkv

Language(s):Tagalog
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)/Italian (hardcoded)

The post Lav Diaz – Ang alitaptap AKA The Firefly (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.