Miguel Gomes is a Portuguese film director, born in Lisbon in 1972 and graduated from the Superior School of Theatre and Cinema. He started his career following the Portuguese film tradition of auteur cinema. He received several awards in national and international film festivals for his early works. His film Tabu, which takes place mainly in the colonial Africa, won the Prize of FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics) and Alfred Bauer Prize at the International Film Festival Berlinale 2012. Until now Gomes directed the following films: Entretanto (In the Meanwhile, 1999), Inventário de Natal (Christmas Inventory, 2000), Trinta e Um (Thirty-One, 2002), Kalakitos (2002), A Cara Que Mereces (The Face You Deserve, 2004), Cântico das Criaturas (Creatures' Song, 2006), Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto (That Dear Month of August, 2008), Tabu (Taboo, 2012), Redemption (2013), As Mil e Uma Noites (The Thousand and One Nights, 2014).