Tommy Guns

Carlos Conceição

Fiction / HD / 119' / 2022

Angola, 1974, the thirteenth year of the liberation war: the Portuguese and their descendants flee the colony, where independentist groups gradually lay claim to their territory. TOMMY GUNS gives a dual perspective on this struggle: a tribal girl who discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier; and a group of Portuguese soldiers who are barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long awaited justice.


With João Arrais, Anabela Moreira, Gustavo Sumpta, Miguel Amorim, João Cachola, Ivo Arroja, Sílvio Vieira, Diogo Nobre, André Cabral, Ulé Baldé, Leonor Silveira, Meirinho Mendes Script and Directing Carlos Conceição Cinematography Vasco Viana Editing António Gonçalves Sound Editing Rafael Cardoso Sound Mix Xavier Thieulin Colorist Marco Amaral Production Design Artur Pinheiro COSTUME DESIGN Patrícia Dória MAKE-UP Márcia Lourenço SPECIAL MAKE-UP FX Oldskull FX - João Rapaz Producers Leonor Noivo, João Matos, Luísa Homem, Pedro Pinho, Susana Nobre, Tiago Hespanha, Margarida Ventura, Carlos Conceição, Virginie Lacombe, Arnaud Quesada

Partners

Co-production Mirabilis, Virginie Films

Awards

Junior Jury Award - Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland'22
Europa Cinemas Label Award'22

Festivals

Locarno Film Festival, Suiça'22
Sevilla International Film Fest, Espanha'22
14th Ostrava Kamera Oko International Cinematographers FiIm Festival, República Checa'22
Mostra de Sao Paulo, Brasil'22
Cork Film Festival, Irlanda'22
Leeds Film Festival, UK'22
Leffest - Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival, Portugal'22
Belfast Film Festival, Irlanda'22
Thessaloniki Film Festival, Grécia'22
New Directors New Films, EUA'23
D'A - Festival de Cinema de Barcelona, Espanha'23
Istanbul Film Festival, Turquia'23
Tournai Ramdam Festival, Bélgica'23
SICILIA QUEER 2023 International New Visions filmfest, Itália'23
Munich Film Festival, Alemanha'22
Bellaria Film Festival, Itália'23
Atlântida Film Festival, Espanha'23
Melbourne Film Festival, Australia'23
Cinemacia Festival Metropolitano de Cine, Colombia'23
BIII Festival of Moving image, Alemanha'23
Through the looking glass, Itália'23
Braunschweig Film Festival, Alemanha'23
Macao for the Portuguese Cinema Festival, Macau'23

Exhibitions

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), USA'23
Cinema Beaubien Montreal, Canada'23
Laemmle Glendale Los Angeles, USA'23
Cineteca Madrid, Spain'23