May 20, 2022 (Cannes)
August 26, 2022 (United States)
September 1, 2022 (Australia)
Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy film directed by George Miller and starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. Miller wrote the screenplay with Augusta Gore, adapting the 1994 short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt. Elba stars as a djinn who is freed by a professor (Swinton) and recounts his life to her.
Three Thousand Years of Longing had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2022, was released in cinemas the United States on August 26, 2022, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (via United Artists Releasing), and was released in Australia on September 1, 2022, by Roadshow Entertainment. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.