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.

Фільмографія

• 2026Fire of Wind — Producer
• 2026Repetition in re-creation — Director of Photography
• 2025Where do you come from, Silence — Art Direction
• 2023The Daughters of Fire — Director, Screenplay
• 2021Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard — Sound Designer
• 2021Uncertain Path
• 2019Vitalina Varela — Director, Screenplay
• 2016How I Fell in Love with Eva Ras — Thanks
• 2014Horse Money — Director, Writer
• 2012Alto Cutelo — Director
• 2012Historic Centre — Director of Photography, Screenplay
• 2012Sweet Exorcist — Director, Writer
• 2010Our Man — Director, Story
• 2009Change Nothing — Director, Cinematography
• 2007Memories — Story, Director
• 2007Tarrafal — Director
• 2007The 13 Roses — Producer, Story
• 2007The Rabbit Hunters — Director
• 2007The State of the World — Director, Director of Photography
• 2006All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director
• 2006Colossal Youth — Director, Cinematography, Writer
• 2006Minino macho, Minino fêmea — Director
• 2005Change Nothing — Director
• 2003The End of a Love Affair — Director, Screenplay
• 2003Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? — Director, Director of Photography
• 20016 Bagatelas — Director
• 2001Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes — Director, Director of Photography
• 2001Dialogues clandestins 2001
• História do Cinema Português
• 2001In Vanda's Room — Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
• 19989'8m/s² — Policía 1.
• 1997Ossos — Director, Screenplay
• 1995Casa de Lava — Director, Writer
• 1994Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho — Editor, Assistant Director
• 1989Blood — Director, Screenplay
• 1988Agosto — Assistant Director
• 1987Duma Vez Por Todas — Assistant Director
• 1987Letters to Julia — Director
• 1986A Girl in Summer — Assistant Director
• 1986A Portuguese Farewell — Assistant Director
• 1986Hovering Over the Water — Props
• 1984Manel — Director
• 1984É Tudo Invenção Nossa — Director
• Finding the Criminal
• Untitled Pedro Costa Musical Film — Director

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 2019Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa — Himself
• 2018Wiara — Self