Pedro Costa’s 2006 installation Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female is made up of additional footage from In Vanda’s Room and Colossal Youth. Interior and exterior spaces in Fountainhas are set side by side. Editing the images is left up to the viewer.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miarro, and I, with our diverse gazes, we undertake this "Uncertain Journey", wandering around the threshold where life and cinema intertwine. Facing –as a citizen and as a filmmaker– the identity crisis that floods Europe, I look backwards in search for lights of hope, and I admire how my daughter Alicia, at the...
Every day, Pedro Costa takes a bus to a Lisbon neighborhood called Fontainhas. Day after day, he films the inhabitants of this shantytown. All Blossoms Again is a film at the edges of Costa’s main body of work. We follow this filmmaker on the shoot of his new film Colossal Youth, and witness the indissoluble, peculiar bond that takes shape little by little and which connects hi...
Daniel is a yuppie hasn't been been able to lead a satisfactory sentimental life. One day he meets Yolanda, a beautiful young woman who has a daughter, Patricia, and who hasn't been very lucky in life either. They decide to get together and they go to live in his house, an old and eerie mansion. Soon enough, their relationship starts to become difficult; the isolation of the ho...
Mika (Fiorella Mattheis) is a stripper who tries to rebuild her life after a troubled and mysterious past. She started working in the bustling Rua Augusta, in So Paulo, where she is a dancer in Love Nightclub and has fun in the nightclub Hell. In one of these nights, the fate of the young woman crosses with that of the son of a powerful businessman, which changes his life fore...
This is another great film by Pedro Costa , a movie about the relationship between a couple of directors ( Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub) that are trying to edit the film Sicília!. During that process Straub and Huillet talk about general and particular aspects of the movie industry, in a extremely interesting dialogue.
The End of a Love Affair
A short film by Pedro Costa, Gustavo Sumpta and Joo Fiadeiro.
Ne Change Rien was born as a result of the friendship between the French singer/actress Jeanne Balibar, sound engineer Philip Morea, and Pedro Costa. The film follows Jeanne Balibar from rehearsals to recording sessions, from rock concerts to classical singing lessons, from an attic in Black Forest to the stage of Tokyo cafe, from Johnny Guitar to Offenbach’s La Perichole. The ...
三个年轻的姐妹因福戈火山爆发而被迫分离。但她们唱起了歌：有一天，我们会知道我们为什么活着，为什么受苦......
Sweet Exorcist: While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, Ventura gets lost in the woods.
2019年8月18日，第72届洛迦诺国际电影节公布获奖名单，葡萄牙导演佩德罗·科斯塔执导的《火焰的女儿》斩获电影节最高奖项金豹奖，韩国导演朴庭凡执导的《破浪》获评审团特别奖，法国导演达米昂·玛尼维勒凭《伊莎多拉的眼泪》获最佳导演奖。
O Nosso Homem (Our Man) is a short variation in the line of the trilogy Pedro Costa has devoted to the habitants of the Fontainhas quarter, which has been destroyed in the meantime. It can be considered as a sort of appendix to the third part, Juventude en Marcha (Colossal Youth), in which the hero, Ventura, reappears as one of the four characters of this dialogue of hopelessne...
