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Pedro Costa
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 Tea…
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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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2026
Fire of Wind
Movie Producer
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2026
Repetition in re-creation
Movie Director of Photography
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2025
Where do you come from, Silence
Movie Art Direction
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2023
The Daughters of Fire
Movie Director
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2021
Uncertain Path
Movie
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2021
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Movie Sound Designer
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2019
Vitalina Varela
Movie Director
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2019
Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa
Movie Himself
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2018
Wiara
Movie Self
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2016
How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras
Movie Thanks
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2014
Horse Money
Movie Director
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2012
Historic Centre
Movie Director of Photography
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2012
Sweet Exorcist
Movie Director
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2012
Alto Cutelo
Movie Director
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2010
Our Man
Movie Director
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2009
Change Nothing
Movie Director
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2007
The 13 Roses
Movie Producer
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2007
Memories
Movie Story
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2007
The State of the World
Movie Director
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2007
The Rabbit Hunters
Movie Director
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2007
Tarrafal
Movie Director
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2006
Colossal Youth
Movie Director
- 2006
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2006
Minino macho, Minino fêmea
Movie Director
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2005
Change Nothing
Movie Director
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2003
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Movie Director
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2003
The End of a Love Affair
Movie Director
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2001
6 Bagatelas
Movie Director
- 2001
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2001
In Vanda's Room
Movie Director
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2001
História do Cinema Português
TV show
- 2001
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1998
9'8m/s²
Movie Policía 1.
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1997
Ossos
Movie Director
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1995
Casa de Lava
Movie Director
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1994
Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho
Movie Editor
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1989
Blood
Movie Director
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1988
Agosto
Movie Assistant Director
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1987
Duma Vez Por Todas
Movie Assistant Director
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1987
Cartas a Júlia
Movie Director
