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Pedro Costa is a Director, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer Portugais born on 3 march 1959 at Lisbon (Portugal)
Pedro Costa (born 1959) is a Portuguese film director.
He collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) at 2002 Cannes Film Festival for directing the film In Vanda's Room. Colossal Youth was selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008.
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While studying history at University of Lisbon, Costa switched to film courses at Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) where he was a student of António Reis, Paulo Rocha and Alberto Seixas Santos. After working as an assistant director to several directors such as Jorge Silva Melo, Vítor Gonçalves and João Botelho, he made a first feature film O Sangue (The Blood) in 1989.He collected the France Culture Award (Foreign Cineaste of the Year) at 2002 Cannes Film Festival for directing the film In Vanda's Room. Colossal Youth was selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Independent/Experimental prize (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) in 2008.
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Filmography of Pedro Costa (13 films)
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The Bridges of Sarajevo (2013)
, 1h54Directed by Isild Le Besco, Jean-Michel Frodon, Pedro Costa, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Marc Recha, Sergei Loznitsa, Teresa Villaverde, Angela Schanelec, Vincenzo Marra, Cristi Puiu, Aida Begić, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic
Origin German
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about cities
Actors Samuel Finzi, Alma Prica, Fabrice Aragno
Rating58%
Treize courts métrages traitent de la place de Sarajevo dans l'histoire européenne.
Change Nothing (2009)
, 1h40Directed by Pedro Costa
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Jeanne Balibar, François Loriquet
Rating71%
Jeanne Balibar, chanteuse, des répétitions aux enregistrements, des concerts rock aux cours de chant lyrique, d’un grenier à Saint Marie-aux-Mines à la scène d’un café de Tokyo, de Johnny Guitar à la Périchole, d’Offenbach.
The State of the World (2007)
, 1h45Directed by Chantal Akerman, Wang Bing (王兵), Pedro Costa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Jenjira Pongpas, Babu Santana
Rating59%
Six réalisateurs, six regards sur l'état du monde. Leur rencontre crée un nouveau prisme de réflexion dynamique et radical, un espace pour interroger l'avenir.
Colossal Youth (2006)
, 2h35Directed by Pedro Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Political films
Rating68%
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
In Vanda's Room (2001)
, 3hDirected by Pedro Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Rating69%
La vie de Vanda Duarte, marchande ambulante de fruits et légumes et consommatrice quotidienne d'héroïne, dans le bidonville en démolition de Fontainhas à Lisbonne.
Ossos (1997)
, 1h34Directed by Pedro Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Isabel Ruth, Inês de Medeiros
Rating67%
L'errance dramatique d'un couple et d'un bébé dans les rues d'un quartier difficile de Lisbonne.
Down to Earth (1995)
, 1h50Directed by Pedro Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Isaac de Bankolé, Édith Scob, Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Isabel de Castro
Rating68%
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
Blood (1989)
, 1h35Directed by Pedro Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Actors Luís Miguel Cintra, Inês de Medeiros, Henrique Viana, Isabel de Castro
Rating73%
Banlieue de Lisbonne, entre Noël et le Jour de l'an. Deux frères ayant grandi trop vite, Vicente (17 ans) et Nino (10 ans), partagent avec la sensuelle Clara, employée à l'école, le secret de la disparition de leur père. Leur oncle kidnappe Nino.
El caso Almería (1984)
, 2hDirected by Pedro Costa
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Agustín González, Juan Echanove, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Guillén, Manuel Alexandre
Rating66%
The film tells the story of three men tortured and killed by Guardia Civil in 1981.
Scriptwriter
The 13 Roses (2007)
, 2h12Directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Pilar López de Ayala, Verónica Sánchez, Goya Toledo, Marta Etura, Asier Etxeandia, Enrico Lo Verso
Roles Writer
Rating66%
In Madrid in 1939 during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, Virtudes and Carmen, two young idealistic Republican militants, are encouraging their neighbours to keep faith in the cause of the Republic. However, the entry of Franco's victorious troops into the city is eminent. Fearing the bloody repression that was coming, many Republicans are fleeing the country while others are unable or unwilling to do so.
Colossal Youth (2006)
, 2h35Directed by Pedro Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Political films
Rating68%
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
In Vanda's Room (2001)
, 3hDirected by Pedro Costa
Origin Portugal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Rating69%
La vie de Vanda Duarte, marchande ambulante de fruits et légumes et consommatrice quotidienne d'héroïne, dans le bidonville en démolition de Fontainhas à Lisbonne.
Lucky Star (1997)
, 1h38Origin Espagne
Genres Drama
Actors Antonio Resines, Jordi Mollá, Maribel Verdú, Elvira Mínguez
Roles Writer
Rating69%
Rafael is a kind, good-hearted butcher. He has a lonely life after accidentally castrating himself while cutting meat several years before, but he longs to have a family life, a dream that seems unattainable for him. One early morning when he is driving his truck to his butcher’s shop, he sees a young man assaulting a woman. Rafael cannot help but intervene and jumps out of his vehicle to help her. Taking pity on the girl, he takes her to his home. Her name is Marina and the man who was beating her was her boyfriend, Daniel. Marina, nicknamed One-Eye (for she lost one eye in a childhood accident), tells Rafael how she and Daniel grew up together in a hostile environment in an orphanage, where she was left abandoned by her father. Marina feels attach to Daniel, as they do not have anybody else. They have had a hard life on the streets, and now that she is pregnant by him, she is adamant not only to have the baby, that Daniel does not want, but she would like to offer the baby the family life, she never had.