Three close friends, Crista Carloto and João – along an entire film crew – become the protagonists of a cinematic experiment shot during the lockdown. The film unfolds from end to beginning and continues a career-long fascination for director Miguel Gomes (Tabu, Arabian Nights) with the act of filmmaking. This time he teams up with his wife and creative partner, filmmaker Maureen Fazendeiro, for a sun-soaked metatextual celebration of the creative process and a hazy meditation on the lockdown blues. Shot in sumptuous 16mm during the pandemic, the film is one of the most playful cinematic creations of the pandemic, for which personal restrictions provided a source of inspiration and pure joy in the creative process.
The Tsugua Diaries
The Tsugua Diaries
A film by Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes
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Play Dates
| Ticket | Theater/Festival | City | State | Opening Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUY TICKETS | Film at Lincoln Center | New York | NY | 5/27/22 |
| BUY TICKETS | FilmScene | Iowa City | IA | 6/3/22 |
| BUY TICKETS | Laemmle Monica | Los Angeles | CA | 6/3/22 |
| BUY TICKETS | Oklahoma City Museum of Art | Oklahoma City | OK | 6/4/22 |
| BUY TICKETS | Nightlight Cinema | Akron | OH | 6/10/22 |
| BUY TICKETS | Real Art Ways | Hartford | CT | 6/10/22 |
| BUY TICKETS | Cleveland Cinematheque | Cleveland | OH | 6/16/22 |
| BUY TICKETS | Suns Cinema | Washinton | DC | 6/17/22 |
| Lumiere Music Hall | Beverly Hills | LA | 6/17/22 | |
| Cinema Public | Montreal | QC, Canada | 7/3/22 | |
| Austin Film Society | Austin Film Society | TX | 7/31/22 | |
| Brattle Theatre | Cambridge | MA | 8/5/22 | |
| Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit | MI | 8/12/22 |
About the Director
MAUREEN FAZENDEIRO was born in 1989 in Créteil, France. She studied literature, art and cinema at Denis Diderot University in Paris. Her films Motu Maeva (2014) and Black Sun (2019) have been selected at international film festivals such as FID Marseille, Toronto, Mar del Plata, Viennale, Valdivia, DocLisboa, Vila do Conde, Torino, Gijon… and have been screened at cinematheques, museums and art fairs (MoMa, Biennale di Veneza, Aichi Triennale, FIAC Paris…). She collaborates as scriptwriter on Miguel Gomes next projects, Savagery and Grand Tour. She lives in Lisbon.
2019 Black Sun, OT: Sol Negro (short)
2014 Motu Maeva, OT: Motu Maeva (short)
MIGUEL GOMES was born in Lisbon in 1972. He graduated from the Lisbon Film and Theatre School and worked as film critic. Gomes directed several short films presented and awarded in international film festivals and his first feature film The Face You Deserve (2004) was released in Portugal and France. His next feature films, Our Beloved Month of August (Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight 2008), Tabu (Berlinale Official Competition 2012: Alfred Bauer and FIPRESCI awards) and Arabian Nights (a film in three parts, Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, 2015) confirm his international success and projection. Gomes is presently working on Savagery, based on Euclides da Cunha’s masterpiece “Os Sertões”, and developing The Grand Tour, a fiction feature project, co-written with Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro and Maureen Fazendeiro.
2015 Arabian Nights – Volume 1, The Restless One, OT: As Mil e Uma Noites – Volume 1, O Inquieto
2015 Arabian Nights – Volume 2, The Desolate One, OT: As Mil e Uma Noites – Volume 2, O Desolado
2015 Arabian Nights – Volume 3, The Enchanted One , OT: As Mil e Uma Noites – Volume 3, O Encantado
2013 Redemption, OT: Redemption (short)
2012 Tabu, OT: Tabu
2008 Our Beloved Mont of August, OT: Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto
2006 Canticle of All Creatures, OT: Cântico das Criaturas (short)
2004 The Face You Deserve, OT: A Cara que Mereces
2002 Kalkitos, OT: Kalkitos (short)
2002 Thirty-One Means Trouble, OT: Trinta e Um (short)
2000 A Christmas Inventory, OT: Inventário de Natal (short)
1999 Meanwhile, OT: Entretanto (short)
Cast and Crew
CREW
Director: Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes
Producers: Luís Urbano, Filipa Reis, Sandro Aguilar, João Miller Guerra
Production Manager: Joaquim Carvalho
Screenwriters: Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
Assistant Director: Patrick Mendes
Director of Photography: Mário Castanheira
Gaffer: Rui Monteiro
First Assistant Camera: Ricardo Simões
Sound Recordists: Vasco Pimentel, Miguel Martins
Production Designer: Andresa Soares
Cooks: Isabel Cardoso, Adilsa
Script Supervisor & Editor: Pedro Filipe Marques
Sound Editor & Mixer: Miguel Martins
Colorist: Andreia Bertini
CAST
Crista Alfaiate, Carloto Cotta, João Nunes Monteiro
Film Info
Year: 2021
Country: Portugal
Runtime: 102 min
Color: Color
Language: Portuguese, Romanian
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Sound: 5.1
Awards and Festivals
Cannes Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
New York Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
FIDMarseille
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival
New Horizons International Film Festival
