Teresa Villaverde
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.
Personal Details
Movies (22)
Justa
Director (Directing)
2025
Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?
Director (Directing)
2019
Six Portraits of Pain
Editor (Editing)
2019
Acts of Cinema
2018
Galileo’s Thermometer
Director (Directing)
2018
Colo
Writer (Writing)
2017
Paris 15/16
Director (Directing)
2016
The Bridges of Sarajevo
Director (Directing)
2014
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director (Directing)
2013
Cisne
Director (Directing)
2011
O Capacete Dourado
as Enfermeira
2007
Trance
Director (Directing)
2006
Visions of Europe
Director (Directing)
2004
In Favour of Light
Director (Directing)
2004
Lei
2002
Water and Salt
Writer (Writing)
2001
The Mutants
Director (Directing)
1998
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
1994
Two Brothers, My Sister
as Voice of the Teacher (voice)
1994
Hovering Over the Water
as Rosa
1993
Alex
Writer (Writing)
1991
Lovely Child
Writer (Writing)
1990