Teresa Villaverde
Directing
- Born
- May 18, 1966 (age 60) · 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.
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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.
Known for
Visions of Europe
May 1, 2004
Trance
October 5, 2006
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
August 28, 2013
Colo
November 16, 2017
The Mutants
November 27, 1998
The Bridges of Sarajevo
July 16, 2014
Two Brothers, My Sister
November 4, 1994
Alex
February 16, 1991
Water and Salt
August 1, 2001
Lovely Child
May 4, 1990
Cisne
September 8, 2011
Galileo’s Thermometer
January 28, 2018
Behind the camera18
- 2025Justa Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
- 2019Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ? Director, Producer, Director of Photography
- 2019Six Portraits of Pain Director, Editor
- 2018Galileo’s Thermometer Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
- 2017Colo Writer, Director, Producer
- 2016Paris 15/16 Director
- 2014The Bridges of Sarajevo Director, Writer
- 2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded Director
- 2011Cisne Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2006