Pedro Costa
Directing
Awards
Won 1 Annual award ACFK Award
Annual award ACFK 1 won
- 2013 Annual award ACFK Won
Prix France Culture Cinéma 1 won
- 2002 Prix France Culture Cinéma Won
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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.
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Filmography
Directing
26 credits
Vitalina Varela
In Vanda's Room
Horse Money
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Casa de Lava
The Daughters of Fire
Colossal Youth
Ossos
Change Nothing
Alto Cutelo
Tarrafal
Change Nothing
6 Bagatelas
Our Man
Blood
Minino macho, Minino fêmea
Sweet Exorcist
Memories
The State of the World
Historic Centre
The Rabbit Hunters
É Tudo Invenção Nossa
The End of a Love Affair
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
Cartas a Júlia
Manel
Other credits
18 credits
Uncertain Path
In Vanda's Room
All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director
Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
História do Cinema Português
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Where do you come from, Silence
A Girl in Summer
A Portuguese Farewell
Repetition in re-creation
The State of the World
Historic Centre
Duma Vez Por Todas
Agosto
Dialogues clandestins 2001
Finding the Criminal
How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras
Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes
Writing
14 credits
Vitalina Varela
In Vanda's Room
The 13 Roses
Horse Money
Casa de Lava
The Daughters of Fire
Colossal Youth
Ossos
Our Man
Blood
Sweet Exorcist
Memories
Historic Centre
The End of a Love Affair
Acting
7 credits
Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa
Hovering Over the Water
Colossal Youth
Change Nothing
9'8m/s²
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Wiara
Producing
2 credits
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