Three Thousand Years of Longing
1h 48m | R | Drama, Sci-Fi, Romance
Coming Soon
Opens
August 31, 2022
Accessibility
Director
George Miller
Cast
Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton, David Collins, Kaan Guldur
Distributor
Mirror Releasing LLC
Synopsis
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.