
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.

A Portuguese Film
MOVIE • 2011

Fuck the Polis
MOVIE • 2025

Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies
MOVIE • 2019

O Construtor de Anjos
MOVIE • 1978

Life Lasts Two Days
MOVIE • 2022

Principiantes
MOVIE • 2018

D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night
MOVIE • 1974

No Tempo do Cinema
MOVIE • 2006

What Now? Remind Me
MOVIE • 2014

Karl Martin
MOVIE • 1974