【Dual Screening Delight I — Director in Focus: Miguel Gomes】Our Beloved Month of August

★ Cannes Film Festival

★ São Paulo International Film Festival - Critics Award

In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people

and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, drink beer, make babies. If the director and film crew had got straight to it and resisted the temptation to join in the festivities the

synopsis would come down to: the film follows the affective relationship between a father and daughter, and the daughter’s cousin, all musicians in a dance band…

Director｜ Miguel Gomes

Cast｜Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho