Biography
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.
Filmography
all 39
Movies 39
Director 29
self 1
The Viennale-Trailer 2023 (2023)
The Daughters of Fire (2023)
Uncertain Path (2021)
Vitalina Varela (2019)
Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa (2019)
Wiara (2018)
How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras (2016)
Horse Money (2014)
L'amour sauvage (2014)
Historic Centre (2012)
Sweet Exorcist (2012)
Our Man (2010)
Change Nothing (2009)
The State of the World (2007)
The Rabbit Hunters (2007)
Tarrafal (2007)
Memories (2007)
All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director (2006)
Colossal Youth (2006)
Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female (2006)
Change Nothing (2005)
Minino macho, Minino fémea (2005)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2003)
The End of a Love Affair (2003)
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes (2001)
6 Bagatelas (2001)
In Vanda's Room (2001)
Dialogues clandestins 2001 (2001)
Ossos (1997)
¡Qué vienen los Beatles! (1995)
Casa de Lava (1995)
Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho (1994)
Hovering Over the Water (1993)
Blood (1989)
Agosto (1988)
A Girl in Summer (1986)
A Portuguese Farewell (1986)
É Tudo Invenção Nossa (1984)
Finding the Criminal
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GenderMale
Birthday1959-03-03 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceLisbon, Portugal
CitizenshipsPortugal
AwardsPrix France Culture Cinéma
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