Throughout her long and still vital career Portuguese filmmaker Rita Azevedo Gomes (b. 1952) has defined a vanguard of European art cinema through a series of boldly experimental films that together engage a complex dialogue with literature, poetry, theater and painting.

A long overdue rediscovery of Azevedo Gomes’ larger oeuvre is at last underway, including this, the first US retrospective of her work. On this occasion we have also invited Azevedo Gomes to select and write about six films that are important to her cinema.

Consult the schedules.