PORTRAIT OF A CERTAIN ORIENT
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PORTRAIT OF A CERTAIN ORIENT

Directed by Marcelo Gomes

Info

Director: Marcelo Gomes
Section: Spotlight
Country: Brazil
Year: 2024
PT: RETRATO DE UM CERTO ORIENTE
OT: RETRATO DE UM CERTO ORIENTE
Language: Portuguese
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Wafa’a Celine Halawi, Charbel Kamel, Zakaria Kaakour, Eros Galbiati, Rosa Peixoto
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

In poetic black-and-white images, this melodrama takes us on a journey between two worlds, deep into the rainforest of the Amazon.

Christian siblings Emily and Emir flee from Lebanon to Brazil, desperate to get away from the war that had cost their parents their lives. On the ship, Emily meets a businessman named Omar and begins to imagine a better life with him. But Emir wants to prevent her from having a relationship with the Muslim.

Show calendar

Calendar

  • After the film: Q&A with Marcelo Gomes

    Amerikahaus Theatersaal
  • After the film: Q&A with Marcelo Gomes

    ASTOR Club Kino

Meet the director

PORTRAIT OF A CERTAIN ORIENT

Marcelo Gomes

Marcelo Gomes studied filmmaking at the University of Bristol. His first film, CINEMA, ASPIRINS AND VULTURES, premiered at Cannes in 2005. His second feature film, VIAJO PORQUE PRECISO, VOLTO PORQUE TE AMO (2009), which he and Karim Aïnouz directed, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. His biopic JOAQUIM was screened at the Berlinale in 2017, while his drama PALOMA had its world premiere at the Munich International Film Festival in 2022.

Credits

Screenplay: Marcelo Gomes, Maria Camargo, Gustavo Campos
Director of Photography: Pierre de Kerchove
Film Editor: Karen Harley
Composer: Mateus Alves, Piero Bianchi, Sami Bordokan
Production Designer: Marcos Pedroso, Caterina Pepe
Costume Design: Rô Nascimento, Maria Diaz, Fabio Cicolani
Sound: Fernando Aranha, Bruno Armelin, Bernardo Adeodato, Cristiano Sherer
Producer: Mariana Ferraz, Ernesto Soto Canny
Production Company: Matizar Filmes, Kavac Film
Executive producer: Mariana Ferraz, Ernesto Soto Canny, Eliane Ferreira, Mauro Pizzo, Patrick Carrarin
Co-Producer: Eliane Ferreira
World Sales: O2 Play