Director
Teresa Villaverde
Born 1966 · Lisbon, Portugal
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.
Directed
The Mutants
Director · 1998
Colo
Director · 2017
Trance
Director · 2006
Alex
Director · 1991
Cisne
Director · 2011
The Bridges of Sarajevo
Director · 2014
Visions of Europe
Director · 2004
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director · 2013
Two Brothers, My Sister
Director · 1994
Water and Salt
Director · 2001
Galileo’s Thermometer
Director · 2018
Justa
Director · 2025
Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?
Director · 2019
In Favour of Light
Director · 2004
Six Portraits of Pain
Director · 2019
Paris 15/16
Director · 2016
Cold Wa(te)r
Director · 2004
