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.

Directed

1. Visions of Europe (2004) — Director
2. Trance (2006) — Director
3. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) — Director
4. Colo (2017) — Director
5. The Mutants (1998) — Director
6. The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014) — Director
7. Two Brothers, My Sister (1994) — Director
8. Alex (1991) — Director
9. Water and Salt (2001) — Director
10. Cisne (2011) — Director
11. Galileo’s Thermometer (2018) — Director
12. In Favour of Light (2004) — Director
13. Justa (2025) — Director
14. Paris 15/16 (2016) — Director
15. Six Portraits of Pain (2019) — Director
16. Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ? (2019) — Director
17. Cold Wa(te)r (2004) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Hovering Over the Water (2013) — Rosa
2. Two Brothers, My Sister (1994) — Voice of the Teacher (voice)
3. O Capacete Dourado (2007) — Enfermeira
4. Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista (1994)
5. Acts of Cinema (2018)
6. Lei (2002)