Person
Teresa Villaverde
Directing · Born 1966-05-18 · Lisbon, Portugal
Biography
Teresa Villaverde is a Portuguese screenwriter, director, and producer, born in Lisbon in 1966. She began her artistic career as co-writer and co-director of a stage production with the Theatre Group of the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. Her films have won numerous awards and have been the focus of retrospectives and critical study worldwide — including the Centre Pompidou (France, 2019) and Fundação de Serralves (Portugal, 2019) — as well as complete retrospectives at festivals and cinematheques in Italy, Spain, Croatia, Switzerland, South Korea, and Portugal. She is frequently invited to teach in Portugal and abroad. Her work has premiered at the world’s leading festivals, including Cannes, Venice, and Berlin.
Known for
Cisne
Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
Lovely Child
Writer
Water and Salt
Director
Justa
Director
Visions of Europe
Director
Two Brothers, My Sister
Voice of the Teacher (voice)
Hovering Over the Water
Rosa
Alex
Director
The Bridges of Sarajevo
Director
Filmography
- 2025JustaDirector
- 2019Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?Director
- 2019Six Portraits of PainDirector
- 2018Acts of Cinema
- 2018Galileo’s ThermometerDirector
- 2017ColoWriter
- 2016Paris 15/16Director
- 2014The Bridges of SarajevoDirector
- 2013Venice 70: Future ReloadedDirector
- 2013Hovering Over the WaterRosa
- 2011CisneDirector
- 2007O Capacete DouradoEnfermeira
- 2006TranceDirector
- 2004Visions of EuropeDirector
- 2004Cold Wa(te)rDirector
- 2004In Favour of LightDirector
- 2002Lei
- 2001Water and SaltDirector
- 1998The MutantsDirector
- 1994Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
- 1994Two Brothers, My SisterVoice of the Teacher (voice)
- 1991AlexDirector
- 1990Lovely ChildWriter
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