30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ONDE/MIGUEL GOMES

INVENTÁRIO DE NATAL

CHRISTMAS INVENTORY
by Miguel Gomes
Country: Portugal
Year: 2000
Duration: 23'


The mid-1980s. A large Portuguese family reunites to celebrate Christmas at the grandparents’ home. The mood is festive, the children joke with the adults and play with the dog wandering around the apartment. But the action doesn’t only center on the people: there is also the gift paper, the Christmas tree, the toys for the youngsters, and the Nativity scene with its small statues, a fundamental element of the celebration.

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).

Declaration

film director

“When I was twelve I dreamt that I was putting in motion the static pictures of the crèche. With this film I tried to do the same with the memories of my cousins and relatives, with that house and with those rituals. It’s a fake documentary and a fake animation film, a semi-fiction about children that go to war, play music and take over.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Miguel Gomes fotografia/cinematography Rui Poças
montaggio/film editing Manuel Mozos
suono/sound Luis Botelho interpreti/cast Alberto Seixa Santos, Maria Joana Grácio, Joana Grácio, Paulo Encarnação, Manuel Mozos produttori/producers João Figueiras, Sandro Aguilar
produzione/production O Som e a Fúria
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Agência da Curta Metragem
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