Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

Screening Schedule

November 21 (Sat.) 12:45 at Hall 1

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Details

In Portugal – one European country in crisis – a film director proposes to build fictional stories from the miserable reality he is immersed in. However, failing to find meaning in his work, he cowardly runs away and leaves the beautiful Scheherazade to stand in his shoes. She will require enthusiasm and courage so as not to bore the King with sad stories of this country! As nights go past, restlessness leads to desolation and in turn to enchantment. Therefore Scheherazade organises the stories she tells the King in three volumes. She begins like this: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries…”.

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 1, O Inquieto

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.