Raquel Freire

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Raquel Freire
Born (1973-06-22) 22 June 1973 (age 50)
NationalityPortuguese
Occupation(s) Film director, screenwriter, novelist

Raquel Freire (born 22 June 1973, in Porto) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and novelist. [1] [2] [3]

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Career

In 2014, she released the film Transiberic Love which is a love story set in modern times showing how one can be an activist within globalised social media and still have some integrity. [4]

In 2013 she published the book Trans Iberic Love, [5] which in 2020 was one of the titles chosen to be part of Sara Barros Leitão's reading project "Heróides - Clube do Livro Feminista." [6]

In 2020 she participated in the first edition of Queer Fest, in Lisbon, in the discussion table "Queer As Intersectionality." [7]

Raquel's films can be found on the streaming platform MUBI. [8]

Works

Films

Novel

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References

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