She is one of the key figures in contemporary Portuguese cinema. She has worked for more than thirty years in the Film Department of the Gulbenkian Foundation and in the Portuguese Cinematheque, where she is a programmer. Her films have been selected at the main international film festivals, from Berlin to Locarno or San Sebastián. With Correspondências she was awarded at DocsLisboa film festival.

Filmography

The Kegelstatt Trio (2022, D’A 2023), Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (co-directed, 2019), The Portuguese Woman (2018, D’A 2019), Correspondências (2016, D'A 2017), A Woman's Revenge (2012), A Colecção Invisível (2009), A 15ª Pedra (2007), A Conquista de Faro (medium lenght, 2005), Altar (2003), Fragile as the World (2002), O Som da Terra a Tremer (1990)