Rita Azevedo Gomes

Rita Azevedo Gomes

Born: January 1, 1952
in Lisbon, Portugal
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 for Rita Azevedo Gomes...

Life Lasts Two Days
Title: Life Lasts Two Days
Released: July 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Rómulo's quiet routine in Rio de Janeiro changes overnight when an accident starts a wave of absurd events. Far from there, Orlando, his twin brother and rare works dealer tries to buy the book of a Brazilian student with financial problems. The twins' lives will be on a collision course with the arrival of a mysterious manuscript.
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Correspondencia
Title: Correspondencia
Released: July 21, 2020
Type: Movie
A series of correspondences between artists, directors and creators curated by Sergi Álvarez Riosalido for La Casa On. The authors exchange filmed letters without knowing each other previously but trying to approach, despite this, a certain intimacy through distance. The correspondences will take place between: Rita Azevedo Gomes and Antonio Menchen; Valentina Alvarado and Nazli Dincel; and Mariano Llinás and Matías Piñeiro.
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Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Title: Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical representation. The writer is Jean-Louis Schefer, and this tale encapsulates his life’s mission.
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Principiantes
Title: Principiantes
Released: June 20, 2018
Type: Movie
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What Now? Remind Me
Title: What Now? Remind Me
Character: Self
Released: August 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. “What now? Remind Me” is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics and globalization, on survival beyond all expectations, on dissent and absolute love. In a to-and-fro between present and past memories, the film is also a tribute to friends departed and those who remain.
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A Portuguese Film
Title: A Portuguese Film
Character: Herself
Released: October 28, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
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No Tempo do Cinema
Title: No Tempo do Cinema
Character: Herself
Released: May 21, 2006
Type: Movie
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
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O Construtor de Anjos
Title: O Construtor de Anjos
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and also from the Hammer films and the Saxon plastic tradition of romanticism.
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Karl Martin
Title: Karl Martin
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An “artist film” that crosses Karl Martin, Martin Heidegger and the Communist Party’s Manifesto.