Born in Lisbon in 1972, he studied at the School of Theater and Cinema in the Portuguese capital and worked as a film critic. In 2012, the 36th Mostra held an early retrospective of his work, exhibiting his award- winning short films and his feature films “The Face You Deserve” (2004), “Our Beloved Month of August” (2008), critic’s prize at the 32nd Mostra, and “Tabu” (2012), awarded with the Alfred Bauer and the critics prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival. Gomes also made the “Arabian Nights” trilogy (2015) and “The Tsugua Diaries” (2021), both presented at the Cannes Film Festival and Mostra.

Born in 1989, she is a French filmmaker and screenwriter based in Lisbon. She studied literature, art and cinema at Denis Diderot University, in Paris. Her short films Motu Maeva (2014) and Black Sun (2019) have been selected at film festivals such as FID Marseille, Toronto, Mar del Plata, DocLisboa and Torino. Maureen works with film medium and is a member of L’Abominable, an artist-run lab based in Paris. The Tsugua Diaries is her first feature film.