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Pedro Costa

Pedro Costa
  • Name: Pedro Costa
  • Birthday: 1958-12-30
  • Place of birth: Lisbon, Portugal
  • Popularity: 1.075
Biography: 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... Read More

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Title Release date
Uncertain Path 2021-10-26
Sacavém: The Films of Pedro Costa   as  Himself 2019-05-07
Wiara   as  Himself 2018-01-14
All Blossoms Again: Pedro Costa, Director 2006-07-10
Dialogues clandestins 2001 2001-01-01