Teresa Villaverde
Directing
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.
As actor 6
On the crew 18
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Alex
1991
Cisne
2011
The Bridges of Sarajevo
2014
Lovely Child
1990
Visions of Europe
2004
Justa
2025
Water and Salt
2001
Two Brothers, My Sister
1994
The Mutants
1998
Colo
2017
Trance
2006
Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?
2019
Galileo’s Thermometer
2018
Six Portraits of Pain
2019
In Favour of Light
2004
Cold Wa(te)r
2004
Paris 15/16
2016