Screenplay: Miguel Gomes

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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:...

Direction Maureen Fazendeiro · Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · Carloto Cotta · João Monteiro

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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....

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot "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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast João Nicolau · Mariana Ricardo · Paolo Manera

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Plot 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...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Jani Zhao · Gonçalo Waddington · João Pedro Vaz · Teresa Madruga

Plot Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across...

Direction Miguel Gomes

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

Plot 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...