Miguel Gomes

Born: 1972-01-01

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miguel Gomes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Tabu

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2012-04-05

Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar...

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Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One

as Realizador
Released: 2015-06-24

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to...

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The Tsugua Diaries

as uncredited
Released: 2021-07-14

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The...

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The Portuguese Nun

as uncredited
Released: 2009-08-09

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

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Carnival: Looking for Paulo 'Miller'

as uncredited
Released: 2008-01-01

A 2008 short made in accompaniment with Our Beloved Month of August, documenting Gomes's and his...

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Acts of Cinema

as uncredited
Released: 2018-10-01

Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of...

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Song of Love and Health

as Pai do João (voice)
Released: 2009-03-13

João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through...

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Arabian Nights

as uncredited
Released: 2015-05-16

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

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