Pedro Costa

Directeur, Scénariste, Producteur, Acteur

30 décembre 1958 (67 ans)
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.

Connue pour

  • Dans la chambre de Vanda
    Dans la chambre de Vanda2001
  • Vitalina Varela
    Vitalina Varela2019
  • Ossos
    Ossos1997
  • En avant, jeunesse
    En avant, jeunesse2006
  • Ventura
    Ventura2014
  • Down to Earth
    Down to Earth1994
  • Le Sang
    Le Sang1989
  • Les treize roses
    Les treize roses2007
  • Ne change rien
    Ne change rien2009
  • Historic Centre
    Historic Centre2012
  • O nosso Homem
    O nosso Homem2010
  • Ne change rien
    Ne change rien2005
  • L'État du monde
    L'État du monde2007
  • Fire of Wind
    Fire of Wind2025
  • Cinéma, de notre temps
    Cinéma, de notre temps1 saison

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