Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa's snail-paced evocation of an old man dislocated in time and place (hollywoodreporter.com)

The film tells a story of Mariana, a depressing nurse working in Lisbon. She accompanies an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip to home. After she arrives in Cape Verde, she encounters the strange and enigmatic world. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama. There she finds that "she brought a living man among the dead." (Wikipedia)

Using sparse dialogue and stunningly rich black-and-white images, Costa follows two young brothers and a teacher on the run from the boys' malevolent uncle and his gang of vicious criminals.

O Estado do Mundo is a compilation of 6 different short movies, retracting differents views of people above the world, showing people from different continents.

Probably too minimalist even for most specialized audiences, "Bones" describes the emotional wasteland of a Creole shantytown outside Lisbon with a chilling rigor that should cull favor and laurels at many festivals. (variety.com)

Documentary about Jeanne Balibar, showing three years of her life and the labor of her creative processes.

The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict, in the shanty outskirts of Lisbon. The film's focus is also on the community of the district and its townscape. (Wikipedia)

Six unused scenes from Où gît votre sourire enfoui?

A feature film with four stories celebrating the city of Guimarães in the North of Portugal. (imdb)

O Nosso Homem (Our Man) is a short variation in the line of the trilogy Pedro Costa has devoted to the habitants of the Fontainhas quarter, which has been destroyed in the meantime. It can be considered as a sort of appendix to the third part, Juventude en Marcha (Colossal Youth), in which the hero, Ventura, reappears as one of the four characters of this dialogue of hopelessness... (KG)

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

An examination of how the Holocaust is remembered, a fable of ghosts recalling their former lives and two Internet lovers haunted by past events form the moving and wide-ranging vid-shot triptych, "Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007)," helmed by the rarefied Euro trio of Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa and Eugene Green. (Variety)

A man stands alone in a room: the woman (or man) is gone. With this one-shot film, Pedro Costa portrays the state of feeling of the afterwards of a love affair which led nowhere. (imdb)

A short film showing a rehearsal and live performance by Jeanne Balibar. Costa would go on to make a feature-length documentary with the same title and subject matter in 2009.

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life. (imdb)

Pedro Costa’s segment from “O Estado do Mundo”.

Three young sisters are set apart by the eruption of Fogo. But they sing. One day, we will know why we live and why we suffer (imdb).