Rita Azevedo Gomes

Directing·Jan 1, 1952·Lisbon, Portugal

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Rita Azevedo Gomes (born c. 1952) is an award-winning Portuguese film director. Her career dates from the early 70s and spans cinema, theatre and opera. In 2001 she presented her work in various film festivals including Venice, Montreal, and Turin. Altar (2002) won the prize for best director at the Angra do Heroísmo international film festival and premiered in Portugal in September 2002. This was followed in 2004 by A 15ª Pedra: Manoel de Oliveira e João Bénard da Costa em Conversa Filmada, which was shown at the Marseille, Procida and Doclisboa film festivals in 2005, as well in The Ancient Art Museum and Serralves Foundation. Also in 2005, she was commissioned by Faro Capital da Cultura to direct The Conquest of Faro, which was presented at the 2005 Turin Film Festival and had its national premiere in Faro in December 2005. A Colecção Invisível (The Invisible Collection, 2009) will have its premier in Lisbon at the Cinemateca Portuguesa. Her most recent film, A Portuguesa (The Portuguese), inspired in Robert Musil’s novel Die Portugiesin, is in post-production.

Film	Credit
Mirage2026 · Actor	Actor
Fuck the Polis2025 · Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography	Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
Life Lasts Two Days2022 · Actor	Actor
The Kegelstatt Trio2022 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
oo Ah! das coisas. o pecado de João Palolo2020 · Director	Director
oo Ah! das coisas. “Nos quartos das freiras não há espelhos.”2020 · Director	Director
oo Ah! das coisas. “Um dia voltei ao quarto…”2020 · Director	Director
OO Ah! das coisas - The lost letter - Setembro 20202020 · Director	Director
O Ah! das coisas, 21 de Abril 20202020 · Director	Director
O Ah! das coisas, 6 de Abril 20202020 · Director	Director
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies2019 · Actor, Director, Producer	Actor, Director, Producer
The Portuguese Woman2019 · Producer, Director, Screenplay	Producer, Director, Screenplay
Principiantes2018 · Actor	Actor
Correspondences2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
What Now? Remind Me2014 · Self	Self
A Woman's Revenge2012 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
A Portuguese Film2011 · Herself	Herself
The Invisible Collection2009 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
The 15th Stone2007 · Director	Director
No Tempo do Cinema2006 · Herself	Herself
The Conquest of Faro2005 · Director	Director
Altar2003 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Fragile as the World2001 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Sound of the Shaking Earth1990 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
O Construtor de Anjos1978 · Actor	Actor
Karl Martin1974 · Actor	Actor
D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night1974 · Actor	Actor