Teresa Villaverde
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 18, 1966
- Birthplace
- Lisbon, Portugal
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.
Filmography
Justa 2025
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Où en êtes-vous, Teresa Villaverde ? 2019
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Six Portraits of Pain 2019
Director, Editor
Acts of Cinema 2018
Actor
Galileo’s Thermometer 2018
Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer, Sound Designer, Director of Photography
Colo 2017
Writer, Director, Producer
Paris 15/16 2016
Director
The Bridges of Sarajevo 2014
Director, Writer
Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2013
Director
Cisne 2011
Director, Producer, Screenplay
O Capacete Dourado 2007
as Enfermeira
Trance 2006
Director, Screenplay
Cold Wa(te)r 2004
Director
Visions of Europe 2004
Director
- In Favour of Light
In Favour of Light 2004
Director
Lei 2002
Actor
Water and Salt 2001
Writer, Director
The Mutants 1998
Director, Writer
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista 1994
Actor
Two Brothers, My Sister 1994
as Voice of the Teacher (voice), Director, Screenplay, Editor
Alex 1991
Writer, Director
Lovely Child 1990
Writer
Hovering Over the Water 1986
as Rosa
Credits from TMDB.