Director
Teresa Villaverde
60 years · Lisbon, Portugal · 22 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 22
Justa
2025 · Director, Writer
Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?
2019 · Director, Cinematography
Six Portraits of Pain
2019 · Editor, Director
Acts of Cinema
2018 · Actor
Galileo’s Thermometer
2018 · Director, Editor
Colo
2017 · Writer, Director
Paris 15/16
2016 · Director
The Bridges of Sarajevo
2014 · Director, Writer
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director
Cisne
2011 · Director, Screenplay
O Capacete Dourado
2007 · Enfermeira
Trance
2006 · Director, Screenplay
Visions of Europe
2004 · Director
Cold Wa(te)r
2004 · Director
Lei
2002 · Actor
Water and Salt
2001 · Writer, Director
The Mutants
1998 · Director, Writer
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
1994 · Actor
Two Brothers, My Sister
1994 · Voice of the Teacher (voice), Director
Alex
1991 · Writer, Director
Lovely Child
1990 · Writer
Hovering Over the Water
1986 · Rosa