Rita Barbosa is a film director and visual artist with a degree in Digital Arts. She explores new relationships between text, actors, image, and sound, constantly searching for innovative ways to portray the psychology of characters and expand storytelling.
Rita Barbosa
Rita Barbosa 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 Rita Barbosa’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication | Jean-Luc Godard , Anne-Marie Miéville | France | 1976 | |||
| Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht Not Reconciled | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | Germany | 1966 | 55’ | ||
| The Discipline of D.E. | Gus Van Sant | USA | 1982 | 9’ | ||
| Betty Tells Her Story | Liane Brandon | USA | 1972 | 20’ | ||
| A Place Colled Lovely | Sadie Benning | USA | 1991 | 14’ | ||
| Subject to Review | Theo Anthony | USA | 2019 | 37’ | ||
| Bird of Prey Rapace | João Nicolau | Portugal | 2006 | 25’ | ||
| The Black Tower | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1987 | 24’ | ||
| Necrology | Standish Lawder | USA | 1970 | 12’ | ||
| The Hunt A Caça | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | 1964 | 21’ | ||