Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

Screening Schedule

November 22 (Sun) 12:00 at Hall 1

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Details

In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad! The residents of a tower block in the suburbs will save parrots and piss inside lifts while surrounded by dead people and ghosts; including in fact a dog that…”. And seeing the morning break, Scheherazade fell silent.

Cast : Crista Alfaiate, Adriano Luz, Américo Silva, Carloto Cotta

Directed by Miguel Gomes
Written by: Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro
Cinematography : Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Mário Castanheira
Editing: Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques, Miguel Gomes
Sound: Vasco Pimentel
Production Design : Bruno Duarte, Artur Pinheiro
Producers: Sandro Aguilar, Luís Urbano, Thomas Ordonneau, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Elena Tatti, Thierry Spicher, Elodie Brunner

Year of production: 2015
Running time: 125’
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland
Language : Portuguese
Original Title: As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado

Director

Miguel Gomes was born in Lisbon in 1972. He studied cinema and worked as film critic for the Portuguese press until the year 2000. Miguel has directed several short films and made his first feature The Face you deserve in 2000. Our beloved Month of August (2008) and Tabu (2012) came to confirm his success and international recognition. Tabu was released at Berlinale’s Competition, where it won the Alfred Bauer and FIPRESCI award ; the movie was sold to over 50 countries and won dozens of awards. Retrospectives of Miguel’s work have been programmed at the Viennale, the BAFICI, the Torino Film Festival, in Germany and in the USA. Redemption, his most recent short film, premiered in 2013 at Venice Film Festival. Arabian Nights, is a three-part feature film, premieres in this year's edition of the Directors Fortnight in Cannes.