33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE 2015
AS MIL E UMA NOITES - VOLUME 1, O INQUIETO
by Miguel Gomes
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Year: 2015
Duration: 125'
In 2013, a director goes to northern Portugal to film the closing of the big Viana do Castelo shipyard. At that same time, the area is under the scourge of a bee disease which is putting the honey production at risk. Realizing cinema’s impotence in the face of reality, the director flees from the set and is captured by his crew. In order to save his life, all he can do is entrust himself to narration and introduce the figure of Scheherazade. The various tales which narrate the economic and social crisis of Portugal are thus based on a number of stories from One Thousand and One Nights.
Biography
film director
Miguel Gomes
Miguel Gomes (Lisbon, Portugal, 1972) worked as a film critic from 1996 to 2000, writing for the daily “Público.” In 1999, he directed his first short, Entretanto, which was presented at the Torino Film Festival, as was his next short, Cântico das Criaturas (2006) and the feature-length Tabu (2012). That same year, the Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus in the section Onde. Gomes debuted in feature films with A Cara que Mereces (2004), which was followed by Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, and Tabu (2012), which won the Alfred Bauer Award and the FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2013, he participated at the Venice Film Festival with the short Redemption, and he returned to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs with As Mil e uma Noites.
FILMOGRAFIA
Entretanto (cm, 1999), Inventário de Natal (cm, 2000), 31 (cm, 2001), Kalkitos (cm, 2002) Pre-Evolution Soccer’s One Minute After a Golden Goal in the Master League (cm, 2003), A Cara que Mereces (2004), Cântico das Criaturas (cm, 2006), Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), Tabu (2012), Redemption (cm, 2013), Arabian Nights (2015).
Declaration
film director
“Humor is a filter that you need. […] Humor is very important when you’re dealing with dramatic things, like the kind of reality in this film. It’s very hard in Portuguese society nowadays, and it’s easy to do emotional blackmail with the viewer. Humor is always the filter you can put that will protect the viewer from the dramatic feelings that come out of the film.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Miguel Gomes
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro
fotografia/cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Lisa Persson, Mário Castanheira
montaggio/film editing
Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques, Miguel Gomes
scenografia/production design
Bruno Duarte, Artur Pinheiro
costumi/costume design
Silvia Grabowski, Lucha D’Orey
suono/sound
Vasco Pimentel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character
Miguel Gomes (il regista/director), Carloto Cotta (il traduttore/translator), Crista Alfaiate (Maria), Adriano Luz (Luís), Chico Chapas, Diogo Dória, Dinarte Branco (Lopes), Rogério Samora (il primo ministro/Premier), Maria Rueff (il ministro del finanze/ministry of Finance), Cristina Carvalhal (la dottoressa/doctor), Tiago Fagulham, Américo Silva
produttori/producers
Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar, Thomas Ordonneau, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowksi, Maren Ade, Elena Tatti, Thierry Spicher, Elodie Brunner
produzione/production
O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud, Komplizen Film, Box Productions
distribuzione/distribution
Milano Film Network
contatti/contacts
Milano Film Network
distribuzione@milanofilmnetwork.it
Miguel Gomes
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro
fotografia/cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Lisa Persson, Mário Castanheira
montaggio/film editing
Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques, Miguel Gomes
scenografia/production design
Bruno Duarte, Artur Pinheiro
costumi/costume design
Silvia Grabowski, Lucha D’Orey
suono/sound
Vasco Pimentel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character
Miguel Gomes (il regista/director), Carloto Cotta (il traduttore/translator), Crista Alfaiate (Maria), Adriano Luz (Luís), Chico Chapas, Diogo Dória, Dinarte Branco (Lopes), Rogério Samora (il primo ministro/Premier), Maria Rueff (il ministro del finanze/ministry of Finance), Cristina Carvalhal (la dottoressa/doctor), Tiago Fagulham, Américo Silva
produttori/producers
Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar, Thomas Ordonneau, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowksi, Maren Ade, Elena Tatti, Thierry Spicher, Elodie Brunner
produzione/production
O Som e a Fúria, Shellac Sud, Komplizen Film, Box Productions
distribuzione/distribution
Milano Film Network
contatti/contacts
Milano Film Network
distribuzione@milanofilmnetwork.it
