Rita Azevedo Gomes

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Fragile as the World (2001) — Director
2. The Portuguese Woman (2019) — Director
3. A Woman's Revenge (2012) — Director
4. Correspondences (2016) — Director
5. The Sound of the Shaking Earth (1990) — Director
6. The 15th Stone (2007) — Director
7. The Conquest of Faro (2005) — Director
8. The Invisible Collection (2009) — Director
9. Altar (2003) — Director
10. Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (2019) — Director
11. The Kegelstatt Trio (2022) — Director
12. Fuck the Polis (2025) — Director
13. O Ah! das coisas, 6 de Abril 2020 (2020) — Director
14. O Ah! das coisas, 21 de Abril 2020 (2020) — Director
15. o Ah! das coisas. “Um dia voltei ao quarto…” (2020) — Director
16. o Ah! das coisas. “Nos quartos das freiras não há espelhos.” (2020) — Director
17. o Ah! das coisas. o pecado de João Palolo (2020) — Director
18. O Ah! das coisas - The lost letter - Setembro 2020 (2020) — Director

Also appeared in

1. What Now? Remind Me (2014) — Self
2. O Construtor de Anjos (1978)
3. Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (2019)
4. Fuck the Polis (2025)
5. D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night (1974)
6. Life Lasts Two Days (2022)
7. A Portuguese Film (2011) — Herself
8. No Tempo do Cinema (2006) — Herself
9. Karl Martin (1974)
10. Principiantes (2018)
11. Mirage (2026)