Year: 2000
Duration: 22'
The mid-1980’s, Christmas Day. A family gathering at the grandparents’ house. There is no leading character, just a group of people of different generations and a dog. There is also the typical Christmas wrapping paper, games for children, decorations and a large Nativity scene.
“When I was twelve, I dreamed of moving the Nativity statues around. With this film, I have tried to do exactly the same thing, using my cousins and relatives, in the same house and following the same rituals” (Miguel Gomes).
Biography
film director
Miguel Gomes
Miguel Gomes (Lisbon, Portugal, 1972) worked as a film critic from 1996 to 2000, writing for the daily “Público.” In 1999, he directed his first short, Entretanto, which was presented at the Torino Film Festival, as was his next short, Cântico das Criaturas (2006) and the feature-length Tabu (2012). That same year, the Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus in the section Onde. Gomes debuted in feature films with A Cara que Mereces (2004), which was followed by Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes, and Tabu (2012), which won the Alfred Bauer Award and the FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2013, he participated at the Venice Film Festival with the short Redemption, and he returned to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs with As Mil e uma Noites.
FILMOGRAFIA
Entretanto (cm, 1999), Inventário de Natal (cm, 2000), 31 (cm, 2001), Kalkitos (cm, 2002) Pre-Evolution Soccer’s One Minute After a Golden Goal in the Master League (cm, 2003), A Cara que Mereces (2004), Cântico das Criaturas (cm, 2006), Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (2008), Tabu (2012), Redemption (cm, 2013), Arabian Nights (2015).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Miguel Gomes.
Director of photography: Rui Poças.
Editor: Manuel Mozos.
Sound: Luis Botelho.
Cast: Alberto Seixa Santos, Maria Joana Grácio, Joana Grácio, Paulo Encarnação, Manuel Mozos.
Produttori: Sandro Aguilar, João Figueiras.
Foreign sales agent: Agência da Curta Metragem, apart. 214, 4481-911 Vila do Conde, Portugal, tel. +351-252-646683, fax +351-252-638027, e-mail agencia@curtasmetragens.pt.
Director of photography: Rui Poças.
Editor: Manuel Mozos.
Sound: Luis Botelho.
Cast: Alberto Seixa Santos, Maria Joana Grácio, Joana Grácio, Paulo Encarnação, Manuel Mozos.
Produttori: Sandro Aguilar, João Figueiras.
Foreign sales agent: Agência da Curta Metragem, apart. 214, 4481-911 Vila do Conde, Portugal, tel. +351-252-646683, fax +351-252-638027, e-mail agencia@curtasmetragens.pt.