Rita Azevedo Gomes Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Rita Azevedo Gomes Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
28 October 2011
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
01 April 1985
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
03 March 1986
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
12 July 2019
Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical representation.
03 December 1981
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
21 May 2006
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
28 May 2020
Short film released through the Gestos & Fragmentos platform during the COVID-19 quarantine. With verses by Adília Lopes.
20 July 2001
An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story.
26 October 2007
Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors [96-years-old then].
28 February 2019
North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal.
29 April 2020
Short film released through the Gestos & Fragmentos platform during the COVID-19 quarantine.
18 May 2020
Short film released through the Gestos & Fragmentos platform during the COVID-19 quarantine.
29 April 2020
Short film released through the Gestos & Fragmentos platform during the COVID-19 quarantine.
30 June 2020
Short film released through the Gestos & Fragmentos platform during the COVID-19 quarantine.
29 March 2012
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man.
22 October 1990
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost.
04 August 2016
Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal.
03 October 2003
A widowed theater actor relives his memory of a young love.
01 January 2009
A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century life.
26 January 2022
Paul and Adèle were once lovers and separated but are still good friends, one year after everything seems to take them away from each other.
08 August 2014
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.
08 July 2022
Rómulo's quiet routine in Rio de Janeiro changes overnight when an accident starts a wave of absurd events.
10 July 2025
Twenty years ago, believing she was doomed, Irma took a trip to Greece. Today, she retraces that journey, accompanied by three young men.
01 January 1978
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.
01 January 1974
An “artist film” that crosses Karl Martin, Martin Heidegger and the Communist Party’s Manifesto.
01 January 2005
Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark a conversation on the city’s history, unfolding the tales of King Afonso III, who betrays his wife, and of a Moorish woman, who betrays her father.
01 January 1974
This is one of Noronha da Costa's films in which the "fictional" component is most visible. D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night, like the rest of Noronha da Costa's films, is part of the gothic films (Terence Fisher's work was one of his great influences), and in it he shows the different variations around the "specular bodies", which evolve into luminous magic and into sensual and sensory incandescence.
18 May 2020
Short film released through the Gestos & Fragmentos platform during the COVID-19 quarantine.
