Pedro Costa

Known for DirectingBorn 1958-12-30 (age 67)Lisbon, Portugal

Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director. 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. He is considered to be part of "The School of Reis" film family. António Reis, Portuguese director, was his teacher at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called Pedro Costa "the Samuel Beckett of cinema". He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way in documentary format: some are docufictions.Read more

Movies & web series

Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho

All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director

Agosto

Hovering Over the Water

Change Nothing

Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?

Horse Money

Colossal Youth

Sweet Exorcist

9'8m/s²

Casa de Lava

Blood

É Tudo Invenção Nossa

Vitalina Varela

Ossos

In Vanda's Room

The 13 Roses

6 Bagatelas

The Daughters of Fire

Historic Centre

Our Man

Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa

A Portuguese Farewell

The Rabbit Hunters

A Girl in Summer

Change Nothing

Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes

Memories

The End of a Love Affair

The State of the World

How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras

Repetition in re-creation

Fire of Wind

Where do you come from, Silence

Uncertain Path

Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Wiara

Alto Cutelo

Tarrafal

Minino macho, Minino fêmea

Dialogues clandestins 2001

História do Cinema Português

Finding the Criminal