Our Beloved Month of August
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Our Beloved Month of August is a 2008 Portuguese film
directed by Miguel Gomes.
It won the Critics Award at the 2008 São Paulo International Film Festival
. At the 2008 Valdivia International Film Festival
it also won the Critics Award and the award for Best Film.
It's the Portuguese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
in the 81st Academy Awards
.
Cinema of Portugal
Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. In the 1950s, Cinema Novo, sprang up as a movement concerned with showing realism in film, in the vein of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave...
directed by Miguel Gomes.
Reception
As of October 31, 2008, the film has grossed more than €89,000.It won the Critics Award at the 2008 São Paulo International Film Festival
São Paulo International Film Festival
The São Paulo International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in São Paulo, Brazil since 1976. In 2004 Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was a member of the jury.-International Jury Award:*2001: The New Country ...
. At the 2008 Valdivia International Film Festival
Valdivia International Film Festival
The Valdivia International Film Festival started as a very successful international film exhibition released in 1993 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Cine Club of the Universidad Austral de Chile. A competition was included the following year, labeled as "Valdivia Cine & Video"...
it also won the Critics Award and the award for Best Film.
It's the Portuguese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
in the 81st Academy Awards
81st Academy Awards
The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2008 and took place February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST...
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