Director and scriptwriter, lecturer on the MA in Cinema at the UCP School of Arts. Between 1982 and 1995, she worked as an assistant director, annotator and on-set photographer on more than 50 Portuguese and foreign films. Since 1995, she has directed fiction and documentary films, establishing herself as one of the most important names in Portuguese cinema.
The documentaries "Natal 71", "Kuxa Kanema - O nascimento do cinema" and the fictions "A Costa dos Murmúrios" and "Yvone Kane" are among her most recognised films, exploring subjects that cross her personal history with prominent issues in Portugal's recent history, such as the colonial war in Africa, the revolution and the end of the colonial era.