Director
Rita Azevedo Gomes
74 years · Lisbon, Portugal · 24 films
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.
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Best known for
Fragile as the World
2001 · Director, Screenplay
The Portuguese Woman
2019 · Producer, Director
On DocAlliance Films
A Woman's Revenge
2012 · Director, Screenplay
On DocAlliance Films
What Now? Remind Me
2014 · Self
On Kanopy
Correspondences
2016 · Editor, Director
On DocAlliance Films
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
1990 · Writer, Director
Filmography 22
Fuck the Polis
2026 · Actor, Director
Life Lasts Two Days
2022 · Actor
The Kegelstatt Trio
2022 · Editor, Writer
O Ah! das coisas, 21 de Abril 2020
2020 · Director
O Ah! das coisas, 6 de Abril 2020
2020 · Director
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
2019 · Actor, Director
On GuideDoc
The Portuguese Woman
2019 · Producer, Director
On DocAlliance Films
Principiantes
2018 · Actor
Correspondences
2016 · Editor, Director
On DocAlliance Films
What Now? Remind Me
2014 · Self
On Kanopy
A Woman's Revenge
2012 · Director, Screenplay
On DocAlliance Films
A Portuguese Film
2011 · Herself
The Invisible Collection
2009 · Director, Producer
The 15th Stone
2007 · Director, Editor
On DocAlliance Films
No Tempo do Cinema
2006 · Herself
The Conquest of Faro
2005 · Director, Editor
Altar
2003 · Director, Writer
On DocAlliance Films
Fragile as the World
2001 · Director, Screenplay
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
1990 · Writer, Director
O Construtor de Anjos
1978 · Actor
Karl Martin
1974 · Actor
D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night
1974 · Actor