Catarina Mourão studied Music and Film in Bristol and Edinburgh. In 1998, she founded AporDOC, the Portuguese Documentary Association, which oversees the DocLisboa International Film Festival. Since 1998, she has been teaching Film and Documentary in many BA and MA courses. In 2000, she founded Laranja Azul, an independent production company specialising in creative documentaries and visual arts. In 2016, she obtained her PhD in Film from the University of Edinburgh. Her main areas of research are creative documentary, realism, memory, dreams, and archives.
Catarina Mourao
Catarina Mourao participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Catarina Mourao’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulysse | Agnès Varda | France | 1983 | 22’ | ||
| The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1976 | 12’ | ||
| Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia | Hollis Frampton | USA | 1971 | 36’ | ||
| La Paresse Portrait of a Lazy Woman | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1986 | 14’ | ||
| One Week | Buster Keaton , Edward F. Cline | USA | 1920 | 24’ | ||
| Our Room La nostra habitació | Jaume Claret Muxart | Spain | 2025 | 28’ | ||
| Nest Hreiður | Hlynur Pálmason | Denmark, Iceland | 2022 | 22’ | ||
| Ice Merchants | João Gonzalez | Portugal | 2022 | 14’ | ||
| The Bakery Girl of Monceau La Boulangère de Monceau | Eric Rohmer | France | 1962 | 24’ | ||
| Evening Lessons Cours du soir | Jacques Tati | France | 1967 | 30’ | ||