Rita Azevedo Gomes

Known for DirectingBorn 1952-01-01 (age 74)Lisbon, Portugal

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Kegelstatt Trio

O Construtor de Anjos

Fragile as the World

Altar

Fuck the Polis

The Conquest of Faro

Correspondences

Francisca

The Sound of the Shaking Earth

D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night

The Portuguese Woman

The 15th Stone

A Woman's Revenge

The Rose King

The Invisible Collection

What Now? Remind Me

Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies

Notre mariage

Mirage

Life Lasts Two Days

O Ah! das coisas, 6 de Abril 2020

O Ah! das coisas, 21 de Abril 2020

o Ah! das coisas. “Um dia voltei ao quarto…”

o Ah! das coisas. “Nos quartos das freiras não há espelhos.”

o Ah! das coisas. o pecado de João Palolo

O Ah! das coisas - The lost letter - Setembro 2020

Principiantes

A Portuguese Film

No Tempo do Cinema

Karl Martin