Claudia Varejão was born in Porto and studied at the Creativity and Artistic Creation Program of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in partnership with the German Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin and the São Paulo International Film Acadamy. She also studied Photography at AR.CO in Lisbon. Cláudia directed the the short film trilogy Weekend, A Cold Day and Morning Light and the features Ama-San, The Darkness of the Theater I Take Off My Shoes and Amor Fati.