
Person
Rita Azevedo Gomes
Directing · Born 1952-01-01 · Lisbon, Portugal
Biography
Rita Azevedo Gomes (born c. 1952) is an award-winning Portuguese film director. Her career dates from the early 70s and spans cinema, theatre and opera. In 2001 she presented her work in various film festivals including Venice, Montreal, and Turin. Altar (2002) won the prize for best director at the Angra do Heroísmo international film festival and premiered in Portugal in September 2002. This was followed in 2004 by A 15ª Pedra: Manoel de Oliveira e João Bénard da Costa em Conversa Filmada, which was shown at the Marseille, Procida and Doclisboa film festivals in 2005, as well in The Ancient Art Museum and Serralves Foundation. Also in 2005, she was commissioned by Faro Capital da Cultura to direct The Conquest of Faro, which was presented at the 2005 Turin Film Festival and had its national premiere in Faro in December 2005. A Colecção Invisível (The Invisible Collection, 2009) will have its premier in Lisbon at the Cinemateca Portuguesa. Her most recent film, A Portuguesa (The Portuguese), inspired in Robert Musil’s novel Die Portugiesin, is in post-production.
Known for

Mirage
2026

Life Lasts Two Days
2022

The Rose King
Set Decoration

Karl Martin
1974

Altar
Writer

O Construtor de Anjos
1978

Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
2019

Fragile as the World
Director

The Invisible Collection
Director

A Woman's Revenge
Director
Filmography
- 2026Mirage
- 2025Fuck the Polis
- 2022Life Lasts Two Days
- 2022The Kegelstatt TrioEditor
- 2020o Ah! das coisas. o pecado de João PaloloDirector
- 2020o Ah! das coisas. “Nos quartos das freiras não há espelhos.”Director
- 2020o Ah! das coisas. “Um dia voltei ao quarto…”Director
- 2020O Ah! das coisas - The lost letter - Setembro 2020Director
- 2020O Ah! das coisas, 6 de Abril 2020Director
- 2020O Ah! das coisas, 21 de Abril 2020Director
- 2019Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
- 2019The Portuguese WomanScreenplay
- 2018Principiantes
- 2016CorrespondencesEditor
- 2014What Now? Remind MeSelf
- 2012A Woman's RevengeDirector
- 2011A Portuguese FilmHerself
- 2009The Invisible CollectionDirector
- 2007The 15th StoneDirector
- 2006No Tempo do CinemaHerself
- 2005The Conquest of FaroDirector
- 2003AltarWriter
- 2001Fragile as the WorldDirector
- 1990The Sound of the Shaking EarthDirector
- 1986The Rose KingSet Decoration
- 1985Notre mariageCostume Design
- 1981FranciscaCostume Design
- 1978O Construtor de Anjos
- 1974Karl Martin
- 1974D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night
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