Miguel Gomes
Miguel GOMES (1972, Portugal) studied at the Portuguese Film and Theatre School in Lisbon, then began working as a film critic and filmmaker. He has made several award-winning short films. In 2004, he made his debut feature The Face You Deserve, which was shown in Rotterdam. His second feature, Our Beloved Month of August (2008), was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Retrospectives of Gomes’ work have been programmed at the Viennale, the Torino Film Festival and the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival. His film Tabu was the winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale in 2012. In 2015, his Arabian Nights trilogy premiered at the Cannes Festival. Grand Tour (2024) was selected as the Portuguese entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.
Filmography
Entretanto/Meanwhile (1999, short), Inventário de Natal/A Christmas Inventory (2001, short), Trinta e um/Thirty-one Means Trouble (2002, short), Kalkitos (2002, short), Pro Evolution Soccer’s One-minute Dance After a Golden Goal in the Master League (2003, short), A cara que mereces/The Face You Deserve (2004), Cântico das criaturas/Canticle of all Creatures (2006), Aquele querido mês de agosto/Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Tabu (2012), Redemption (2013, short doc), As mil e uma noites: Volume 1 – O inquieto/Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One (2015), As mil e uma noites: Volume 2 – O desolado/Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One (2015), As mil e uma noites: Volume 3 – O encantado/Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One (2015), Diários de Otsoga/The Tsugua Diaries (co-dir. 2021), Grand Tour (2024)
Miguel Gomes at IFFR
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Grand Tour
Set against the backdrop of a crumbling British Empire, Grand Tour weaves an epic romance.
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Our Beloved Month of August
In the Portuguese hills, August is the time of feasts, singing and debauched ways of enjoying oneself. Charming mix of fact and fiction shows urban
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Redemption
Highlight of the film year: collage film featuring intimate thoughts from well-known Europeans in bombastic/ironic ‘letters’ from Portu
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Tabu
Hat tip to the eponymous F.W. Murnau classic in which Portuguese talent Miguel Gomes tells a melancholy story about ageing, lost love, missed oppor
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Pro Evolution Soccer’s One-Minute Dance After a Golden Goal in the Master League
A playful variant on the well?known bekende Playstation soccer computer game. A goal. A dance of joy. No music.
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Arabian Nights: Volume 3 – The Enchanted One
While Scheherazade wonders how much longer she’ll be able to distract her cruel husband with stories, we discover how the love of birdsong came to
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1 – The Restless One
Magical realism, documentary and political satire coalesce in this contemporary Arabian Nights. Scheherazade tells stories about the dismal state o
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Arabian Nights: Volume 2 – The Desolate One
In which Scheherazade continues to tell of the tormented Portuguese people, who turn away from the authorities and look for new heroes. Just as in
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The Face You Deserve
Atmospheric and bizarre humorous fairy-tale about the end of an endless childhood, based on the expression: ‘Until you’re thirty, you h
