TABU

He was born in Lisbon in 1972. He studied at the Lisbon Film and Theater School and worked as a film critic for the Portuguese press between 1996 and 2000. He directed several short films awarded in festivals such as Oberhausen, Belfort and Vila do Conde, and screened at Locarno, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Vienna. The Face You Deserve (2004) was his first feature film. In 2008, he presented his film, Our Beloved Month of August, at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Festival, which was subsequently selected in more than forty international festivals where he won over a dozen prizes. The Viennale (Austria, 2008), BAFICI (Argentina, 2009) and the Centro de Artes e Imaxes da Corunha (Spain, 2009) have presented retrospectives of his films. Tabu is his third feature film.