Magellan Magalhães
Synopsis
In the 16th century, after convincing Spanish royalty to fund his expedition, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (played with harrowing intensity by Gael García Bernal) sets his sights on Southeast Asia. Charting a course for the Malay Archipelago, he embarks on a brutal campaign of religious conversion and colonial conquest, but obsession and madness begin to take hold.
Filipino auteur and “slow cinema” practitioner Lav Diaz helms this starkly beautiful biopic, an unconventional epic centering violence against a series of stunning, languid landscapes. Deliberately paced and endlessly absorbing, Diaz subverts the genre’s conventions at every turn, rejecting traditional mythmaking in favor of a more exacting, critical eye. The result is an awe-inspiring history that examines the sinister cruelty fueling the Age of Discovery.
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Film Credits
- Joaquim Sapinho, Marta Alves, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Paul Soriano, Mark Viktor
- Gael García Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Amado Arjay Babon, Ronnie Lazaro, Hazel Orencio, Tomás Alves, Bong Cabrera, Baptiste Pintaux, Brontis Jodorowsky
- Rosa Filmes, Andergraun Films, Black Cap Pictures, Lib Films
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Sergei LoznitsaFrance, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania
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Shorts 8: Drama
Synopsis
In these five shorts, exceptional international filmmakers explore subjects ranging from sex and war to grief and hippos. Whether employing dark humor or grounded realism, these stories speak to the complexities of the human experience.
In a building housing an old cinema on its last legs, a child discovers their true identity through the magic of the movies and the quiet curiosities of everyday life in Honey, My Love, So Sweet. In Hippopotami, a young girl sets out on a highly anticipated trip to the zoo when she comes to understand a new side of her parents’ inner lives. When their father dies, two brothers must return home to face their complicated past and find a way to move beyond their history in I’m Glad You’re Dead Now. The Cow takes place in occupied Croatia in 1991, where an army major reluctantly cares for a left-behind bovine in a hastily abandoned home, forcing him to face his repressed guilt. In Made of Sugar, Maria, a neurodivergent woman, decides to claim autonomy over her own body, refusing the societal norms and structural barriers telling her she can’t.
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Screening
Sat, Oct 25 @ 8:00pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 01
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The Cow director Pavo Marinkovic & actor Stjepan Perić
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Honey, My Love, So Sweet
Synopsis
In a building housing an old cinema on its last legs, a child discovers their true identity through the magic of the movies and the quiet curiosities of everyday life. This poetic and sweeping story offers a glimpse into coming into oneself amid beauty and ruins.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 8: Drama.
Film Credits
- Alemberg Ang, Earvic Noay, EJ Gagui, Jacob Alcala, Jelsy Arcales, Thom Sison, Vien Geslani, JT Trinidad
- JT Trinidad
- JT Trinidad
- Rocky Morilla
- Kian Co, Marcus Timbas, Manuel Tinio, Mina Cruz
- Max Guanzon
Shorts 10: Outré
Synopsis
The creators of these shorts unabashedly follow their own singular visions into wildly new and weird territories. Filled with fantastic imagery, oddball production design, and both animated and live-action storytelling, this program showcases the boundless possibilities of short film as a uniquely innovative art form.
Water Sports transports us to a hyper-stylized world ravaged by climate change where two students discover that emotional rather than physical strength offers their best chance of survival. In Arguments in Favor of Love, two animated ghosts revisit the conflicts and emotions that populated the landscapes of their previous shared life. A filmmaker narrates the events surrounding her abortion with poignance and irreverence while MS-paint style animation depicts the titular Abortion Party. A single woman navigates the difficult world of contemporary dating in Manakin by building a life-sized stuffed companion onto which she projects the images and words of a litany of single men. A young queer man on his way to a rave in the Argentine Pampas finds himself stranded in a rural tavern with a secret in the strikingly animated Luz Diabla. In a fantastical world suffused with eroticism, Once in a Full Moon follows a young vampire as he embarks on a quest that promises to grant him his heart’s truest desire: to consummate his love for the moon.
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Water Sports
Synopsis
Two students, Jelson and Ipe, prepare for life in their hyper-stylized world ravaged by climate change through feats of physical strength and endurance. However, the force that binds them together and makes their post-climate crisis life worth living isn’t strength, it’s love.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 10: Outré.
Film Credits
- Alemberg Ang, Mara Ravelo Bernaldo
- Whammy Alcazaren
- Carlo Francisco Manatad
- Berhil Cruz
- Elijah Canlas, John Renz Javier, Ricky Davao, Bon Andrew Lenteja
- Caloy Soliongo, Sage Ilagan, obese.dogma777
- Eduardo Lejano, Jr., Manet Dayrit, Liza Diño-Seguerra, Adnan Al Rajeev
- Daluyong Studios
- https://squareeyesfilm.com/shorts/water-sports/
212 W Van Buren St., Suite 400
