ARABIAN NIGHTS

  • Miguel Gomes
  • Fiction
  • 2015
  • 6h21

In a European country in crisis, Portugal, a director sets out to write fiction works inspired by the wretched reality of daily life. However, unable to find meaning in his work, he slips away like a coward and relinquishes his place to the beautiful Scheherazade. She will need a lot of courage and intelligence to avoid boring the King with the sad stories of this land!
As the nights pass and anxiety gives way to desolation and desolation to enchantment, she arranges her tales into three volumes. She begins as follows: “O blessed King, it is said that in a land, sad among lands…

Screenplay
  • Miguel Gomes
  • Mariana Ricardo
  • Telmo Churro
Photography
  • Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Sound
  • Vasco Pimentel
Set design
  • Bruno Duarte
  • Artur Pinheiro
Costumes
  • Silvia Grabowski
  • Lucha D’Orey
Editing
  • Telmo Churro
  • Pedro Filipe Marques
  • Miguel Gomes
Production
  • Agat Films
  • Patrick Sobelman
  • Robert Guédiguian
Coproduction
  • O SOM E A FÚRIA
  • SHELLAC SUD
  • KOMPLIZEN FILM
  • BOX PRODUCTIONS
Distribution Shellac
Theatrical release 04/06/2021
Video editor Shellac