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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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 3.659 |
Birthday | 1972-01-01 |
Place of Birth | Lisbon, Portugal |
Also Known As |
2015
Arabian Nights
8/2
Some of the chapters from Arabian Nights are adapted to a modern Portugal in this epic.
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Arabian Nights
2015
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
6.9/50
Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his pr...
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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
2008
Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'
6/1
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 on...
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Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'
2012
Tabu
7.017/150
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old...
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Tabu
2008
Our Beloved Month of August
6.6/33
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity...
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Our Beloved Month of August
2018
Acts of Cinema
0/0
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...
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Acts of Cinema
2009
Song of Love and Health
5/3
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 conceal...
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Song of Love and Health
2021
The Tsugua Diaries
5.6/18
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...
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The Tsugua Diaries
2009
The Portuguese Nun
6.2/21
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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