Teresa Villaverde

Birthday: 1966-05-18
Birthplace: Lisbon, Portugal
Gender: Female

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.

Credits

Year Title
2025-12-04 Justa
2019-10-26 Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ?
2019-10-22 Six Portraits of Pain
2018-01-28 Galileo’s Thermometer
2017-11-16 Colo
2016-10-23 Paris 15/16
2014-07-16 The Bridges of Sarajevo
2013-08-28 Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2011-09-08 Cisne
2006-10-05 Trance
2004-05-01 Visions of Europe
2004-05-01 Cold Wa(te)r
2004-01-21 In Favour of Light
2001-08-01 Water and Salt
1998-11-27 The Mutants
1994-11-04 Two Brothers, My Sister
1991-02-16 Alex