Direction: Miguel Gomes

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Teresa Madruga · Laura Soveral · Ana Moreira · Carloto Cotta

Synopsis A temperamental old woman, her Cape Verdean maid and a neighbour devoted to social causes live on the same floor of a Lisbon apartment building. When the old lady dies, the other two learn of an episode from her past:...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · João Pedro Bénard · Isabel Muñoz Cardoso · Margarida Carpinteiro

Synopsis A murderer on the run from authorities becomes a folk hero in the second instalment of this surreal epic about the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Elsewhere, a trial involving stolen cows turns farcical and a dog...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Maren Ade · Donatello Brida · Jaime Pereira · Jean-Pierre Rehm

Synopsis On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13, 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Sónia Bandeira · Fábio Oliveira · Joaquim Carvalho · Andreia Santos

Synopsis In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, fight fires, sing karaoke, hurl themselves from bridges, hunt wild boar, drink beer, make babies. If...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Miguel Gomes · Carloto Cotta · Adriano Luz · Rogério Samora

Synopsis This unconventional blend of documentary and fantasy uses the stories-within-stories structure of the classic Arabian Nights to explore the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Among the tales: A group of bankers discover a cure for impotence, a...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · Gonçalo Waddington · Jani Zhao · João Pedro Vaz

Synopsis Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the...

Direction Maureen Fazendeiro · Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · Carloto Cotta · João Monteiro

Synopsis Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after day… And they are not the only ones.

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · Bernardo Alves · Chico Chapas · Carloto Cotta

Synopsis Scheherazade continues to tell stories in order to stay alive in the third and final film of Miguel Gomes' epic about the lives of ordinary people in contemporary, austerity-stricken Portugal. Among the tales: The Grand Vizier fears for Scheherazade's life,...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast José Airosa · Gracinda Nave · Sara Graça · Miguel Barroso

Synopsis "Until you turn 30, you have the face God gave you. After that, you have the face you deserve." The estranged musical comedy that is Gomes' first feature film seeks to convince its protagonist, Francisco, of that saying/dogma; precisely, during...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast João Nicolau · Mariana Ricardo · Paolo Manera

Synopsis A troubadour walks the streets of St. Francis of Assisi hometown, singing and playing the Song of Brother Sun or Song of the Creatures, written by St. Francis back in the winter of 1224. Woods of Umbria, 1212: during one...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Synopsis 25th of December, in the Eighties. The family gets together in the grandparents' house. When I was twelve I dreamt that I was putting in motion the static pictures of the crèche. With this film I tried to do the...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Pedro Barão · Carloto Cotta · Nuno Oliveira · Mariana Ricardo

Synopsis With some slight surrealism, a certain indolent eroticism, and the brutal background of class struggle (as in the early Pasolini), 31 (the number of the tennis court from which the leading couple embarks on an adventure, with just a supermarket...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast André Delphim · Hugo Faustino · Ricardo Gross · João Navarro

Synopsis A 20 year old young man asks some kids if he can play football with them. They think it's weird and ask him how old is he. When he answers «I'm ten» he is laughed at. But he is going...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Synopsis Exactly what it’s announced: the screen of the famous console video game and a dance with no music, to the fragile rhythm of replays. Among the players, we can spot a M. Arnold; perhaps a playful reference to Martin, the...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Gonçalo Félix da Costa · André Delphim · Nuno Oliveira · Mariana Ricardo

Synopsis Parents and teachers have gone away. In the meantime a girl and two boys - Rita, Rui, and Nuno - pass some time together. They watch a rugby match, go to a party, and go to the beach. The three...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Raquel Bernardo · Ana Cristina Ferreira · Miguel Gomes · Paulo “Moleiro”