Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One

Screening Schedule

November 23 (Mon.) [national holiday in Japan] 16:30 at Hall 1

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Details

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at the Ferris wheel, and Scheherazade resumes her narration: “Auspicious King, in old shanty towns of Lisbon there was a community of bewitched men who, in all rigour and passion, dedicated themselves to teaching birds to sing…”. 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 3, O Encantado

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.