38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Gambozinos

João Nicolau

Image Gambozinos
FrancePortugal
2013 18 min
A 10-year-old boy struggles with the bitterness of life in a summer camp. It is not easy to be ignored by the apple of your eye and to see the dormitory wrecked by a group of pre-teen louts. Fortunately, in the forest, the wild geese are still in hiding.
With : Tomás Franco, Paulo Duarte Ribeiro, Pedro Leitão, Isabel Portugal, Ana Sofia Ribeiro
Screenplay : João Nicolau
Image : Mário Castanheira
Editing : Telmo Churro, João Nicolau
Music : Mariana Ricardo
Sound : Vasco Pimentel
Production : O Som e a Furia
João Nicolau was born in 1975 in Lisbon, Portugal. He works as a director, editor, actor and musician. He made the documentary Calado NãoDá (1999), the short film Rapace (2006), selected in the European Short Film category of Premiers Plans in 2007, Canção de amor e saúde(Song of Love and Good Health) (2009) selected in the Figures Libres category of the Festival in 2010, O Dom das Lagrimas (The Gift of Tears) (2012) and the feature A Espada e a Rosa (The Sword and the Rose) (2010)again selected in Figures Libres in the 2011 Festival.