Miguel Gomes was born in Lisbon in 1972. He studied at the Lisbon Film and Theatre School and worked as a film critic for the Portuguese press between 1996 and 2000.
He directed several short films awarded in festivals such as Oberhausen, Belfort and Vila do Conde, and screened at Locarno, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Vienna. THE FACE YOU DESERVE (2004) was his first feature film. In 2008, he presented his film, OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Festival, which was subsequently selected in more than forty international festivals where he won over a dozen prizes.The Viennale (Austria, 2008), Bafici (Argentina, 2009) and the Centro de Artes e Imaxes da Corunha (Spain, 2009) included retrospectives of his films. He is about to release a new feature film called TABU

PORTUGUESE RELEASE AS PART OF DINAMITEM A TERRA DO NUNCA (COMPOSED BY THE SHORTS KALKITOS, CORPO E MEIO, 31, REMAINS) ON JULY THE 4TH 2003

Festival Int. de Curtas Metragens de Vila do Conde [Portugal, 2002]
Special Mention of the Juri RTP: Onda Curta
Cinematexas International Film Festival [USA, 2002] Gecko Award for best 4 Short Films – Editing Award

With some slight surrealism, a certain indolent eroticism, and the brutal background of class struggle (as in the early Pasolini), 31 (the number of the tennis court from which the leading couple embarks on an adventure, with just a supermarket cart filled with tennis balls as their luggage) establishes some improbable connections on the way (between The Wizard of Oz and the end of the Portuguese dictatorship; between silent movies and the exuberant soundtracks made in India) to sketch, perhaps, a critique of another probable and fertile relation: the one between cinema and history.