Eightth film screening of the film programme Miguel Gomes - Full Retrospective and Carte Blanche, which puts Gomes' filmography into dialogue with his own filmic and cinephilic universe. The screening will feature Miguel Gomes' "Tabu" (2012), presented by producer Luís Urbano.

TABU

Miguel Gomes | POR, GER, BRA, FRA, ESP | 2012 | 118'

Pilar lives her retirement trying to fix the world and dealing with other people's guilt. She attends demonstrations for peace, is active in Catholic groups and takes Polish youths in her home from an ecumenical metting. But her neighbor Aurora, an eccentric, temperamental 80-year old is a gambling addict who constantly speaks about her estranged daughter, and lives in suspicion of her maid, the Cape Verdean Santa, whom she accuses of practising voodoo against her. But Aurora wants to meet with a man, Gian Luca Ventura, and Pilar and Santa will find out about him. Gian Luca has a secret pact with Aurora and an untold story about it. 50 years ago, shortly before the Portuguese Colonial War, it starts like this: "Aurora had a farm in Africa close to mount Tabu..."