Teresa Villaverde
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 18, 1966
- Place of birth
- 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.
Movies with Teresa Villaverde
- Hovering Over the Water 1986 · ★ 7.5
- Two Brothers, My Sister 1994 · ★ 6.0
- O Capacete Dourado 2007 · ★ 5.6
- Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista 1994 · ★ 6.5
- Acts of Cinema 2018
- Lei 2002
Movies directed by Teresa Villaverde
- Visions of Europe 2004 · ★ 5.1
- Trance 2006 · ★ 5.9
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2013 · ★ 5.0
- Colo 2017 · ★ 6.8
- The Mutants 1998 · ★ 7.7
- The Bridges of Sarajevo 2014 · ★ 6.3
- Two Brothers, My Sister 1994 · ★ 6.0
- Alex 1991 · ★ 7.0
- Water and Salt 2001 · ★ 5.2
- Cisne 2011 · ★ 7.7
- Galileo’s Thermometer 2018 · ★ 4.7
- In Favour of Light 2004 · ★ 0.0
- Justa 2025
- Paris 15/16 2016
- Six Portraits of Pain 2019
- Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ? 2019
- Cold Wa(te)r 2004