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Fandor
75
6.7
/2618/
67
/102/
66
/68/
3.9
/9578/
95
/64/
57
/4/
86
/22/

Vitalina Varela (2019)
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.
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Kanopy
74
6.9
/2113/
68
/59/
72
/49/
3.9
/7066/
83
/40/
51
/4/
84
/11/

Horse Money (2014)
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
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Criterion Channel
75
55
6.9
/1862/
67
/39/
73
/48/
4.0
/4184/
86
/22/
78
/20/

Colossal Youth (2006)
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
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Criterion Channel
76
53
7.0
/1873/
68
/50/
69
/49/
4.0
/5189/
100
/5/
70
/10/

In Vanda's Room (2001)
An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
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74
49
7.3
/1274/
72
/34/
69
/26/
3.8
/3632/
84
/269/

Blood (1989)
Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never sure why ― murder is suggested. Vicente brings his girlfriend to the house, and a different kind of family is established as the three youngsters grow fiercely protective of each other. But their uncle grows suspicious about the fate of the missing father and forcibly kidnaps Nino, taking him away to the city and leaving Vicente to locate him there.
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76
47
7.1
/386/
56
/9/
74
/10/
3.7
/832/
91
/11/
88
82
/4/

Change Nothing (2009)
One of the most important figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated music documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French actress-turned-singer Jeanne Balibar, a transfixing, cigarette-smoking chanteuse with an intense devotion to her craft. Photographed in shimmering black-and-white and featuring a soundtrack of jazz-inflected pop songs, the film is a luminous exploration of the creative process.
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Criterion Channel
67
44
6.8
/1902/
65
/42/
68
/44/
3.7
/5579/
62
/18/

Ossos (1997)
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
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Fandor
66
33
6.9
/1165/
65
/29/
69
/24/
3.8
/3730/
55
/7/

Casa de Lava (1995)
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
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59
17
7.0
/154/
35
/4/
60
/3/
3.6
/1617/

The Daughters of Fire (2023)
The story of three young Cape Verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of the volcano Fogo. In this unknown country, they roam, hand in hand, evoking their secret fears through music and singing.
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64
15
6.4
/382/
62
/4/
62
/14/
3.4
/609/

Historic Centre (2012)
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
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53
7
5.7
/244/
50
/6/
53
/10/
3.3
/411/
43
/1/

The State of the World (2007)
Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific experience, their crossover creates new space for a dynamic and radical inquisitive reflection.
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?
30
/1/

Minino macho, Minino fêmea (2006)
Pedro Costa's 2006 installation Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female is made up of additional footage from In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth. Interior and exterior spaces in Fountainhas are set side by side. Editing the images is left up to the viewer.
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?
6.5
/96/
70
/1/
59
/8/

Change Nothing (2005)
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.
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?
50
/2/
60
/1/

Cinéma, de notre temps: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub - cinéastes (2001)
The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'
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?
72
/4/
60
/1/

The Rabbit Hunters (2007)
Pedro Costa's segment from the Jeonju film "Memories".
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?
70
/1/

Sweet Exorcist (2012)
A participant in a coup d'état by young commissioned officers, Ventura loses his way within the woods. Eventually, Ventura is admitted into a mental hospital where he has conversations with "ghosts" of the past in the hospital's elevator.
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58
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5.4
/64/
54
/5/
3.3
/207/

The End of a Love Affair (2003)
A man is standing at the window, holding a chair. There are wafts of street noise, and occasionally the curtain flutters. A dog is barking. Then, elegiac music sets in, a lavish string arrangement of Billie Holiday's The End of a Love Affair. With this one-shot film, Pedro Costa portrays the state of feeling of the afterwards of a love affair which led nowhere.
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?
70
/4/

Tarrafal (2007)
Pedro Costa's segment from "O Estado do Mundo".
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?
7.2
/52/
70
/3/
55
/5/

Memories (2007)
Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, and the French filmmaker Eugène Green participated in this project.
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69
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6.7
/149/
78
/5/
61
/7/
3.5
/423/

Our Man (2010)
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.
poster
?
10
/1/

É Tudo Invenção Nossa (1984)
Pedro Costa first foray into filmmaking was a short-film co-produced for RTP within a series named “Cartas a Júlia.”
poster
63
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6.6
/102/
53
/3/
62
/4/
3.6
/300/

6 Bagatelas (2001)
Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a lounging Jean-Marie Straub who gives a non-stop disquisition on liberty and filmmaking while Danièle Huillet busies herself with laundry, and their dog Melchior frisks in and out of frame. —Cinematheque Ontario


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