Ventura

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

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.

With this movie, Aurélien Gerbault invites us to know the portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa and to witness the process of shooting of his movie Colossal Youth (2006). The nature of Costa's cinema is revealed to us: the criation of an intimate space in the hardness of reality.

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 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)