Catalogue des films de « Pedro Costa »

Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old Cape-Verdian, arrives in Lisbon 3 days after her husband's funeral. She's been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years. "Suddenly, in the sumptuous darkness of a neighborhood haunted by solemn shadows,...

"I was a good bricklayer. I never built a crooked wall. My boss never once complained. One day the work ended, and I lost my unemployment benefits. No retirement pension, no family allowances. I looked everywhere for work, found nothing. I...

""Ne change rien", succinctly delivers us the synopsis of this film. It was born of the friendship between the actress Jeanne Balibar, the sound engineer Philippe Morel and Pedro Costa. In other words it is a film which came into being...

Tarrafal: territory on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde where, in 1936, Portugal created a concentration camp for political prisoners. This colony was known as the "camp of slow death".

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet comment on their eighteenth film "Sicilia !" in front of some students. It is a lesson in cinema. Pedro Costa chose to film Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub in the context of a workshop they led last...

Jean-Marie Straub et Danièle Huillet commentent leur dix-huitième film, "Sicilia !", devant des étudiants. Une leçon de cinéma. Pedro Costa a choisi de filmer Danièle Huillet et Jean-Marie Straub dans le cadre d'un atelier qu'ils ont animé...

"In "Ossos" (1997), Pedro Costa filmed the social outcasts of the Fontainhas district on the outskirts of Lisbon. Expelled from the human community, the characters float in the endless hiatus induced by drugs, hunger and poverty. In the present...