Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto

In the mountains of central Portugal, August brings the diaspora home. Villages fill with music, festivals, and returning emigrants. Miguel Gomes begins what looks like a documentary about this annual ritual — bands rehearsing, families reuniting, fireworks over the river — then lets a fictional love story between two cousins quietly overtake the film, blurring the border between what is found and what is invented until neither the audience nor the film itself can tell the difference. A radical, warm, and genuinely original work about storytelling, longing, and the Portuguese summer.