Country: Portugal
Year: 2002
Duration: 19'
A young man about twenty years old watches a group of boys playing soccer; he goes over to them and asks if he can join them. The boys find the request fairly bizarre and ask him how old he is. When the man replies that he is ten, the boys burst out laughing and the man is forced to go away and find another group of people who are different, just like him.
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
“My fourth film, Kalkitos, is very strange because it’s a punk film. It’s a silent movie, truly absurd and very harsh. I call it punk because it only has a couple of chords, that’s all.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Miguel Gomes
fotografia/cinematography João Nicolau
montaggio, suono/film editing, sound João Nicolau, Miguel Gomes
interpreti/cast André Delphim, Patrícia Portela, Ricardo Gross, Hugo Faustino, João Navarro produttori/producers Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
produzione/production Curtas Metragens C.R.L., O Som e a Fúria
vendita all’estero/world sales O Som e a Fúria
fotografia/cinematography João Nicolau
montaggio, suono/film editing, sound João Nicolau, Miguel Gomes
interpreti/cast André Delphim, Patrícia Portela, Ricardo Gross, Hugo Faustino, João Navarro produttori/producers Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar
produzione/production Curtas Metragens C.R.L., O Som e a Fúria
vendita all’estero/world sales O Som e a Fúria
