33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE 2015

AS MIL E UMA NOITES - VOLUME 3, O ENCANTADO

ARABIAN NIGHTS VOLUME 3, THE ENCHANTED ONE
by Miguel Gomes
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Year: 2015
Duration: 126'


Lost and distressed, Scheherazade feels that her ability to tell stories is in doubt. She runs away from her condition as a prisoner queen and travels far and wide through Portugal. But one last story awaits her. And a city, Lisbon, with its suburbs which are searching for new ways to survive and resist poverty. 

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

“We didn’t know what the film was supposed to be! We had this nine-hour version, where the section of the finches was 2h 40… I thought that Scheherazade should have her own crisis, and the film should end with her in action for the first time. And then I thought, no, she had to continue, and the tale of the chaffinches is the only story she can tell. In the third volume you have a crisis of telling stories. It starts like a musical comedy without a narrative, and then Scheherazade starts telling the story about this group of bird-trappers in Lisbon, my city. I thought this was the way to finish the film, with the something realistic, but also at the same time the most surreal.”

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
Carloto Cotta, Crista Alfaiate (Sherazade/Scheherazade), Bernardo Alves (Alves), Chico Chapas, Jing Jing Guo (Ling), Américo Silva (il gran visir/Grand Vizier), Louison Tresalle, Gonçalo Waddington (Gonçalo)
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
Tel: +39 2 6696258
distribuzione@milanofilmnetwork.it


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