FrameThrower · Actors · Miguel Gomes
Miguel Gomes
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2015
Born 1 January 1972 · Lisbon, Portugal
Miguel Gomes is a Portuguese film director. He studied cinema at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema).
Trained at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Superior School of Theatre and Film Lisbon), Gomes worked initially as a film critic and author of theoretical writings on cinema. His films include The Face You Deserve (2004), Our Beloved Month of August (2008) and Tabu (2012).
Tabu was a winner of the Alfred Bauer Prize for Artistic Innovation and the FIPRESCI Jury Prize at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival.
His 2015 film Arabian Nights was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2015
- Cannes Best Director Award2024
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Miguel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 67% of their frames are day, 60% natural — the look of the work Miguel takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Miguel Gomes's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.