Director | Miguel Gomes
Script | Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Editing | João Nicolau, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Pedro Marques
Sound designer | Miguel Martins
Main cast | Jaime Pereira, Donatello Brida, Jean-Pierre Rehm and Maren Ade
Producers | Luís Urbano, Sandro Aguilar, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Paolo Benzi
Production company | O SOM E A FÚRIA, LE FRESNOY, KOMPLIZEN FILM, OKTA FILM
Co-production company | ZDF/Arte
On January 21st 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 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3rd 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head.
But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?
About the director:
Miguel GOMES (1972, Portugal) studied at the Portuguese Film and Theatre School in Lisbon, then began working as a film critic and filmmaker. He has made several award-winning short films. In 2004, he made his debut feature The Face You Deserve, which was shown in Rotterdam. His second feature, Our Beloved Month of August (2008), was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Retrospectives of Gomes’ work have been programmed at the Viennale, the Torino Film Festival and the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival. His film Tabu was the winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale in 2012. In 2015, his Arabian Nights trilogy premiered at the Cannes Festival. Grand Tour (2024) was selected as the Portuguese entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.