Selvajara
With what feels like the start of a new decade with one too many overlapping projects, Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes finally laid the long-gestating Savagery to bed. Written by Gomes alongside The Tsugua Diaries co-director Maureen Fazendeiro, along with Telmo Churro and Mariana Ricardo, Selvajara is an adaptation of the Brazilian novel Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha. production companies include: O Som e a Fúria (Portugal), Shellac Sud (France), Bananeira Filmes (Brazil), Komplizen Film (Germany) and Piano (Mexico).
Gist: This is a chronicle of a bloody war that pitted the inhabitants of the hamlet of Canudos, led by their prophet, against the army of the young Brazilian Republic in 1897.…...
With what feels like the start of a new decade with one too many overlapping projects, Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes finally laid the long-gestating Savagery to bed. Written by Gomes alongside The Tsugua Diaries co-director Maureen Fazendeiro, along with Telmo Churro and Mariana Ricardo, Selvajara is an adaptation of the Brazilian novel Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha. production companies include: O Som e a Fúria (Portugal), Shellac Sud (France), Bananeira Filmes (Brazil), Komplizen Film (Germany) and Piano (Mexico).
Gist: This is a chronicle of a bloody war that pitted the inhabitants of the hamlet of Canudos, led by their prophet, against the army of the young Brazilian Republic in 1897.…...
- 1/17/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
After crafting one of the most playfully inventive lockdown films with this year’s The Tsugua Diaries (co-directed by Maureen Fazendeiro), Portuguese director Miguel Gomes has ventured back into the world with two upcoming projects.
First up, Cineuropa confirms his upcoming feature Selvajaria is “in the can” after being delayed by the pandemic. “The imaginative gaze of filmmaker Miguel Gomes brings to the screen a fundamental text of Brazilian literature, Rebellion in the Backlands, Euclides da Cunha’s account of the 1897 war between the nascent Republic’s army and the native inhabitants of Canudos,” Locarno Film Festival noted. “This epic movie on the end of the symbiosis between humans and nature has faced major obstacles due to the complex political situation in Brazil, with a protracted pre-production phase that involves historical reconstruction of the village and close collaboration with the descendants of the Canudos.”
While we await a 2023 festival premiere for his latest,...
First up, Cineuropa confirms his upcoming feature Selvajaria is “in the can” after being delayed by the pandemic. “The imaginative gaze of filmmaker Miguel Gomes brings to the screen a fundamental text of Brazilian literature, Rebellion in the Backlands, Euclides da Cunha’s account of the 1897 war between the nascent Republic’s army and the native inhabitants of Canudos,” Locarno Film Festival noted. “This epic movie on the end of the symbiosis between humans and nature has faced major obstacles due to the complex political situation in Brazil, with a protracted pre-production phase that involves historical reconstruction of the village and close collaboration with the descendants of the Canudos.”
While we await a 2023 festival premiere for his latest,...
- 12/6/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
New feature from the ‘Arabian Nights’ director is co-directed by documentary filmmaker Maureen Fazendeiro.
Leading German sales company The Match Factory has acquired world sales rights to the upcoming feature by Miguel Gomes, the acclaimed Portuguese director of the Arabian Nights trilogy.
Co-directed by French documentarian Maureen Fazendeiro, Tsugua Diaries was shot entirely in 16mm during the Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal. The filmmakers are keeping plot details under wraps but describe it both as “a lockdown journal” and “also a fiction”.
It reunites The Match Factory with Gomes, having sold Arabian Nights, which debuted in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2015, and Tabu,...
Leading German sales company The Match Factory has acquired world sales rights to the upcoming feature by Miguel Gomes, the acclaimed Portuguese director of the Arabian Nights trilogy.
Co-directed by French documentarian Maureen Fazendeiro, Tsugua Diaries was shot entirely in 16mm during the Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal. The filmmakers are keeping plot details under wraps but describe it both as “a lockdown journal” and “also a fiction”.
It reunites The Match Factory with Gomes, having sold Arabian Nights, which debuted in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2015, and Tabu,...
- 3/2/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: This year’s Oxbelly Labs has set creative advisors including directors Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Mati Diop (Atlantics), Ulrich Köhler (In My Room) and Lulu Wang (The Farewell), as well as producer-seller Michael Weber, founder of The Match Factory.
The Lab is designer to offer promising international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop and direct one scene from it, with guidance from industry mentors.
Led by Oxbelly’s artistic director and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg), the Lab is being hosted online this year.
Returning creative advisors include Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Michael Almereyda (Tesla), Ritesh Batra (Photograph), Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge), Willem Dafoe (Tommaso), Naomi Foner (Running On Empty), Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Jeff Nichols (Loving), Olivier Père and Eva Stefani (Manuscript).
The Labs were established...
The Lab is designer to offer promising international filmmakers the opportunity to work on their first or second feature script, as well as workshop and direct one scene from it, with guidance from industry mentors.
Led by Oxbelly’s artistic director and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg), the Lab is being hosted online this year.
Returning creative advisors include Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Michael Almereyda (Tesla), Ritesh Batra (Photograph), Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge), Willem Dafoe (Tommaso), Naomi Foner (Running On Empty), Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Jeff Nichols (Loving), Olivier Père and Eva Stefani (Manuscript).
The Labs were established...
- 11/12/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
João Nicolau's John From (2015), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from May 12 - June 11, 2017 as a Special Discovery.João Nicolau has become one of the main voices of contemporary Portuguese cinema, next to the likes of Miguel Gomes or João Pedro Rodrigues. John From, his second feature, is a dreamy coming of age tale of both epic and intimate proportions, just like first love. By way of an irresistibly warm 16mm cinematography, a candidly charming protagonist, and the exuberance of Melanesia, Nicolau delivers a truly original, enchanting ode to adolescence and fantasy.Notebook: Is this a film about love, about fantasy, or about love being a fantasy?JOÃO Nicolau: Cinema and passion have two things in common. One is that they make you see things. The other is that they make those things become real. Within this frame, fantasy is just one layer of reality.
- 5/16/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. João Nicolau's John From (2015), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from May 12 - June 11, 2017 as a Special Discovery.How can we begin to explain why João Nicolau is such a charming oddity in a Portuguese film scene that seems to thrive on individuality and personality? You do not mess with Colonel Tapioca lightly, as someone says at some point in John From, Nicolau’s second feature: the reference is both to a character from the adventures of Tintin and to a Spanish “adventure wear” brand that was very popular in Portugal in the 1990s. Nicolau’s films are full of these little rabbit holes that enrich the tales he’s spinning and sometimes make it seem as if you’ve been mysteriously inducted into the secret society of the Republic of Telheiras.
- 5/12/2017
- MUBI
Arabian Nights — Volume 3, The Enchanted One
Written by Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, and Telmo Churro
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 2015
In spite of its seemingly monumental ambitions, Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights has never been in danger of being weighed down by pretensions. From the opening minutes of Volume One, Gomes has maintained an effervescent tone, albeit one tamed somewhat in the darker Volume Two. Even there, Arabian Nights keeps its focus on its main subject: the Portuguese people, and the ways in which they’ve felt the impact of austerity. As such, Gomes’s film always true to itself and never seems to stray from the director’s vision.
With all that in mind, even if the segment which comprises the bulk of Volume Three, titled “The Inebriated Chorus of the Chaffinches,” would seem meandering and aimless in a different film, the documentary-like footage feels perfectly suited to Gomes’s aims.
Written by Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, and Telmo Churro
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 2015
In spite of its seemingly monumental ambitions, Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights has never been in danger of being weighed down by pretensions. From the opening minutes of Volume One, Gomes has maintained an effervescent tone, albeit one tamed somewhat in the darker Volume Two. Even there, Arabian Nights keeps its focus on its main subject: the Portuguese people, and the ways in which they’ve felt the impact of austerity. As such, Gomes’s film always true to itself and never seems to stray from the director’s vision.
With all that in mind, even if the segment which comprises the bulk of Volume Three, titled “The Inebriated Chorus of the Chaffinches,” would seem meandering and aimless in a different film, the documentary-like footage feels perfectly suited to Gomes’s aims.
- 10/19/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
Arabian Nights — Volume 2, The Desolate One
Written by Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, and Telmo Churro
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 2015
After a joyous, energetic opening, the second installment of Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights, subtitled The Desolate One, takes a turn, appropriate to its title, for the darker. The humor which makes the opening such a blast certainly hasn’t entirely disappeared, but it’s become more subdued, and at times even cruel.
The shift in tone is evident from the beginning of the first story, “Chronicle of the Escape of Simao ‘Without Bowels,’” which, in spite of the similarity its title bears to the jocularity of “Volume One,” aims for a more meditative tone. The title refers to an aging fugitive (Chico Chapas), on the run after murdering four women (including his wife and daughter), who hides from police drones and creates a hedonistic paradise for himself amidst barren land.
Written by Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, and Telmo Churro
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 2015
After a joyous, energetic opening, the second installment of Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights, subtitled The Desolate One, takes a turn, appropriate to its title, for the darker. The humor which makes the opening such a blast certainly hasn’t entirely disappeared, but it’s become more subdued, and at times even cruel.
The shift in tone is evident from the beginning of the first story, “Chronicle of the Escape of Simao ‘Without Bowels,’” which, in spite of the similarity its title bears to the jocularity of “Volume One,” aims for a more meditative tone. The title refers to an aging fugitive (Chico Chapas), on the run after murdering four women (including his wife and daughter), who hides from police drones and creates a hedonistic paradise for himself amidst barren land.
- 10/18/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
Arabian Nights
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Written by Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, and Mariana Ricardo
2015, Portugal
As each separate volume stresses in its title sequence, this is not an adaptation of the original book Arabian Nights. While it’s not a surefire adaptation, Miguel Gomes’ series certainly takes a lot from it, including the structure (which the films admit to) and the lead character of Scheherazade. Ultimately it uses the basis from the original Arabian Nights to provide commentary on a period in Portugal in which the country faced economic and political turmoil. Gomes’ Arabian Nights trilogy includes Volume One – The Restless One, Volume Two – The Desolate One, and Volume Three – The Enchanted One. Each volume consists of three stories, with a prologue in volume one. While the film captures the epic quality of the novel, Gomes takes the idea of adaptation to a new level, capturing the essence of...
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Written by Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, and Mariana Ricardo
2015, Portugal
As each separate volume stresses in its title sequence, this is not an adaptation of the original book Arabian Nights. While it’s not a surefire adaptation, Miguel Gomes’ series certainly takes a lot from it, including the structure (which the films admit to) and the lead character of Scheherazade. Ultimately it uses the basis from the original Arabian Nights to provide commentary on a period in Portugal in which the country faced economic and political turmoil. Gomes’ Arabian Nights trilogy includes Volume One – The Restless One, Volume Two – The Desolate One, and Volume Three – The Enchanted One. Each volume consists of three stories, with a prologue in volume one. While the film captures the epic quality of the novel, Gomes takes the idea of adaptation to a new level, capturing the essence of...
- 10/15/2015
- by Sarah Pearce Lord
- SoundOnSight
Arabian Nights — Volume 1, The Restless One
Written by Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, and Telmo Churro
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 2015
From a simplistic description, Miguel Gomes’s film Arabian Nights could sound unbearably self-important. Taking its name from a foundational collection of folk literature and running at a total of over six hours, the film almost sounds like a parody of arthouse excess. Add in the political goals of depicting life in contemporary Portugal under the pain of its economic collapse, and the mere concept of the film threatens to implode in self-seriousness.
But in spite of this, the first segment of Arabian Nights (it’s being screened in three parts), subtitled The Restless One, maintains a whimsical tone throughout which quickly puts to rest any fears of pretentiousness. The film is funny, fast-moving, and too jocular to let accusations of self-importance stick. Not that Gomes doesn’t have serious ambitious for his project,...
Written by Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, and Telmo Churro
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Portugal, 2015
From a simplistic description, Miguel Gomes’s film Arabian Nights could sound unbearably self-important. Taking its name from a foundational collection of folk literature and running at a total of over six hours, the film almost sounds like a parody of arthouse excess. Add in the political goals of depicting life in contemporary Portugal under the pain of its economic collapse, and the mere concept of the film threatens to implode in self-seriousness.
But in spite of this, the first segment of Arabian Nights (it’s being screened in three parts), subtitled The Restless One, maintains a whimsical tone throughout which quickly puts to rest any fears of pretentiousness. The film is funny, fast-moving, and too jocular to let accusations of self-importance stick. Not that Gomes doesn’t have serious ambitious for his project,...
- 10/10/2015
- by Max Bledstein
- SoundOnSight
Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Written by Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, Mariana Ricardo
Portugal / France / Germany / Switzerland, 2015
Miguel Gomes showed up the Director’s Fortnight screening of the second part of Arabian Nights wearing a t-shirt and Benfica football scarf and started off by rambling about his favourite team’s newly won championship title. Something about Gomes is disarmingly charismatic and sincere – you could tell the rugged look was not an act but rather Gomes was just being himself. And amazingly, despite the thick layers of surrealist imagery and narrative convolution, there is a quality in his Arabian Nights enterprise that comes across as totally sincere.
Volume two runs at just over two hours and, on paper, sounds like a load of pretentious claptrap – there is no unified plot but rather the structure is built around three disconnected episodes with various degrees of narrative development.
Directed by Miguel Gomes
Written by Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, Mariana Ricardo
Portugal / France / Germany / Switzerland, 2015
Miguel Gomes showed up the Director’s Fortnight screening of the second part of Arabian Nights wearing a t-shirt and Benfica football scarf and started off by rambling about his favourite team’s newly won championship title. Something about Gomes is disarmingly charismatic and sincere – you could tell the rugged look was not an act but rather Gomes was just being himself. And amazingly, despite the thick layers of surrealist imagery and narrative convolution, there is a quality in his Arabian Nights enterprise that comes across as totally sincere.
Volume two runs at just over two hours and, on paper, sounds like a load of pretentious claptrap – there is no unified plot but rather the structure is built around three disconnected episodes with various degrees of narrative development.
- 5/18/2015
- by Zornitsa
- SoundOnSight
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Arabian Nights
Director: Miguel Gomes// Writers: Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, Mariana Ricardo
Miguel Gomes’ 2012 film Tabu managed to elevate the Portugeuse filmmaker’s international status when it picked up two awards at the Berlin film festival that year, and had a hand in at last making his 2008 Cannes premiered sophomore feature Our Beloved Month of August at last available for DVD consumption in the Us. Experimentally inclined, Gomes next tackles the famed Arabian nights tale but abandons all except for the structure to depict a modern Portugal in peril under Troika control. It’s the most ambitious treatment of the material since Pasolini adapted Arabian Nights back in 1974. We’ll be expecting stunning musical interplay and visually innovative sequences.
Cast: Carloto Cotta, Joana de Verona, Adriano Luz
Producer: O Som e a Fúria
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Release Date: Rumored to be aiming for a Spring 2015 release, we’re...
Director: Miguel Gomes// Writers: Miguel Gomes, Telmo Churro, Mariana Ricardo
Miguel Gomes’ 2012 film Tabu managed to elevate the Portugeuse filmmaker’s international status when it picked up two awards at the Berlin film festival that year, and had a hand in at last making his 2008 Cannes premiered sophomore feature Our Beloved Month of August at last available for DVD consumption in the Us. Experimentally inclined, Gomes next tackles the famed Arabian nights tale but abandons all except for the structure to depict a modern Portugal in peril under Troika control. It’s the most ambitious treatment of the material since Pasolini adapted Arabian Nights back in 1974. We’ll be expecting stunning musical interplay and visually innovative sequences.
Cast: Carloto Cotta, Joana de Verona, Adriano Luz
Producer: O Som e a Fúria
U.S. Distributor: Rights available
Release Date: Rumored to be aiming for a Spring 2015 release, we’re...
- 1/7/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: German sales team launches experimental Miguel Gomes drama at Efm.
German outfit The Match Factory has begun talking to buyers at the Efm about Tabu director Miguel Gomes’ latest project Arabian Nights (As 1001 Noites).
Gomes’ film transposes contemporary Portugal - beset by economic crisis - into the structure of the famous collection of folk tales One Thousand and One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights.
Stories within the film will be based on real stories taken from news and press in Portugal during the production period.
The one-year shoot started in early December 2013 and will continue throughout 2014.
The cast includes Adriano Luz, Carloto Cotta, Rogério Samora, Diogo Dória and Crista Alfaiate.
Co-writers include Tabu writer Mariana Ricardo and Tabu editor Telmo Churro. Uncle Boonmee cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is also on board.
The production has also created an online blog (www.as1001noites.com/en) for the film featuring contributions from Portuguese journalists and illustrators.
O Som...
German outfit The Match Factory has begun talking to buyers at the Efm about Tabu director Miguel Gomes’ latest project Arabian Nights (As 1001 Noites).
Gomes’ film transposes contemporary Portugal - beset by economic crisis - into the structure of the famous collection of folk tales One Thousand and One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights.
Stories within the film will be based on real stories taken from news and press in Portugal during the production period.
The one-year shoot started in early December 2013 and will continue throughout 2014.
The cast includes Adriano Luz, Carloto Cotta, Rogério Samora, Diogo Dória and Crista Alfaiate.
Co-writers include Tabu writer Mariana Ricardo and Tabu editor Telmo Churro. Uncle Boonmee cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is also on board.
The production has also created an online blog (www.as1001noites.com/en) for the film featuring contributions from Portuguese journalists and illustrators.
O Som...
- 2/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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