Miguel Gomes – Redemption (2013)

Synopsis from Venice FF page
On January 21, 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13, 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6, 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3, 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can’t get out of her head.
But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?

Synopsis from TIFF page
Miguel Gomes (Tabu) muses with characteristic humour and melancholia upon small-scale, perversely prescient moments of human fallibility in this witty and affecting found-footage film.
Redemption features Rodrigues’ confrere and countryman Miguel Gomes musing with characteristic humour and melancholia upon small-scale, perversely prescient moments of human fallibility. A witty and affecting montage of colour Super 8 and black-and-white 16mm found footage is accompanied by four epistolary monologues (in Portuguese, Italian, French and German), each of which betrays a sense of haunting guilt or deep-seated regret. Whose redemption is this?

From Imdb
Exclusive: Tabu director’s short film will be screened at Toronto this week.

The Match Factory has picked up Miguel Gomes’ new short film Redemption, which had its world premiere in Venice and will be screened at Tiff this week.

The Cologne-based sales company has previously worked with Gomes, handling his 2012 Berlin winner Tabu.

Redemption combines archive footage and uses voice overs, the epistolary monologues (in Portuguese, Italian, French and German) of four different personalities who recall important stages in their lives which had an impact on who they became.

It was made by O Som E A Fúria in co-production with Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Komplizenfilm, Okta Film, HFilms and Zdf/arte. »