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Miguel Gomes

Miguel Gomes

Miguel Gomes (born 1972, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese film director. He studied cinema at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema).

Trained at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Superior School of Theatre and Film Lisbon), Gomes worked initially as a film critic and author of theoretical writings on cinema. His films include The Face You Deserve (2004), Our Beloved Month of August (2008) and Tabu (2012).

Tabu was a winner of the Alfred Bauer Prize for Artistic Innovation and the FIPRESCI Jury Prize at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival.

His 2015 film Arabian Nights was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

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Movies Made By Miguel Gomes (20)

Grand Tour (2024)

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia. ...

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The Tsugua Diaries (2021)

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. ...

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Savagery (2020)

A chronicle of a bloody war that pitted the inhabitants of the hamlet of Canudos, led by their prophet, against the army of the young Brazilian Republic in 1897. ...

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John From (2016)

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new neighbo ...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015)

In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tonnes. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the Kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. ...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015)

Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: "It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the l ...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories b ...

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Arabian Nights (2015)

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic. ...

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Tabu (2012)

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past. ...

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Our Beloved Month of August (2008)

In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity... ...

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Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller' (2008)

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee ...

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Canticle of All Creatures (2006)

An interpretation of the life of Francis of Assisi. ...

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Bird of Prey (2006)

After finishing his MA in Anthropology, Hugo spends his days giving his brain a rest from the endless reading of texts by unknown authors. His only company is Luisa, the cleaning lady, with whom he plays cat and mouse. To escape the sleep of reason – w ...

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The Face You Deserve (2005)

Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30s ...

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Pre Evolution Soccer's One-Minute Dance After a Golden Goal in the Master League (2004)

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. ...

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31 Means Trouble (2003)

This is the way you hold the racket to play a forehand. Just move your arm back, the left shoulder facing the ball, step forward with your left foot, hitting the ball. ...

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Kalkitos (2002)

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. ...

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Christmas Inventory (2000)

A family gathers to celebrate Christmas. ...

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Meanwhile (1999)

A love triangle between two boys and a girl who drift through life from a rugby game, to a pool party, to the beach. ...

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Movies Starring Miguel Gomes (8)

The Tsugua Diaries (2021)

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. ...

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Acts of Cinema (2018)

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians. ...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (2015)

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his promise of murdering his new wives after their wedding night. Scheherazade tells King Shahryar her stories b ...

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Arabian Nights (2015)

Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic. ...

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Tabu (2012)

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past. ...

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The Portuguese Nun (2009)

A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming. ...

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Song of Love and Health (2009)

João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through the motions of duplicating keys in his tiny shop concealed in the basement of an obsolete nearly deserted shopping center. Some day, he hopes, the lady of his he ...

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Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller' (2008)

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his crew's hapless search, during 2007's carnival, for one of Arganil's most storied and elusive characters (who does, in fact, ultimately appear as an interviewee ...

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