Rita Azevedo Gomes

Rita Azevedo Gomes

Birthday: 1952-01-01

Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal

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.

Movies

Life Lasts Two Days
Life Lasts Two Days

Rómulo's quiet routine in Rio de Janeiro changes overnight when an accident starts a wave of absurd ...

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A Portuguese Film
A Portuguese Film

A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors....

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No Tempo do Cinema
No Tempo do Cinema

A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa....

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O Construtor de Anjos
O Construtor de Anjos

Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fan...

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Karl Martin
Karl Martin

An “artist film” that crosses Karl Martin, Martin Heidegger and the Communist Party’s Manifesto....

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Principiantes
Principiantes

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Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies

Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments fr...

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What Now? Remind Me
What Now? Remind Me

Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. “What now? Remind Me” is the...

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Fuck the Polis
Fuck the Polis

Twenty years ago, believing she was doomed, Irma took a trip to Greece. Today, she retraces that jou...

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D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night
D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night

This is one of Noronha da Costa's films in which the "fictional" component is most visible. D. Jaime...

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