Horizons / Ariel / Spain, Portugal 2025
Galician director Lois Patiño has quite a career behind him. His most recent film, Samsara, redefined the possibilities of sensory experiences in cinema by inviting audiences on a journey between death and reincarnation in the form of a fifteen-minute meditation with closed eyes. Where Samsara explored Buddhist culture in Laos, Ariel presents a postmodern adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, set in the tropical volcanic landscape of the Azores, where Augustina finds herself in a strange reality full of Shakespearean characters incapable of breaking free from their predefined roles. The film is a seductively captivating walk through literary forests and a humorous metanarrative homage to the inhabitants of fictional worlds.
Vojtěch Kočárník
105 min / Color, DCP
Director Lois Patiño
/ Screenplay Lois Patiño
/ Dir. of Photography Ion de Sosa
/ Sound Xabier Erkizia
/ Editor Lois Patiño
/ Art Director Cora Patiño
/ Producer Beli Martínez
/ Production Filmika Galaika
/ Coproduction Bando à Parte
/ Cast Agustina Muñoz, Irene Escolar, José Díaz, Hugo Torres, Marta Pazos
/ Sales Lights On
Lois Patiño. Selected filmography: Mountain in Shadow (Montaña en sombra, 2012, short doc.), Coast of Death (Costa da morte, 2013, doc.), Red Moon Tide (Lúa vermella, 2020), Samsara (2023), Ariel (2025).
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