Cannes Best Director Winner Miguel Gomes’ Long-Awaited War Drama ‘Savagery’ Brought to Market by Luxbox (EXCLUSIVE)

Luxbox will introduce at Cannes Miguel Gomes’ long-cherished project ‘Savagery,’ adapting Euclides da Cunha’s ‘Rebellion in the Backlands,’ about the 1896-97 War of Canudos

By John Hopewell

John Hopewell

Chief International Correspondent

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Finally. First announced in 2020, “Savagery” (“Selvajaria”) the most ambitious and long cherished project of Cannes Best Director Award winner Miguel Gomes (“Grand Tour, “Arabian Nights,” “Tabu”) will be brought to market at next week’s Cannes Festival by Paris-based sales agency Luxbox where it will launch pre-sales.

One year after “The Secret Agent,” the Cannes Film Festival looks likely to have another high-profile title, if here a project, set in Brazil’s Northeast made by one of the most prominent voices in Portuguese-language filmmaking, Portugal’s Gomes, who scored a Cannes Festival Director award in 2024 for “Grand Tour.”

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