Collection
The Fontainhas Collection
Films by Pedro Costa set in the neighborhood of Fontainhas with recurring characters Vanda, Ventura and Vitalina.
Timeline
- 1
Ossos11/14/19971h 37m 6.8After 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.
- 2
In Vanda's Room3/2/20012h 51m 6.6An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
- 3
Colossal Youth11/23/20062h 35m 7.2After 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.
- 4
Horse Money12/4/20141h 44m 7.2While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
- 5
Vitalina Varela10/7/20192h 4m 6.6A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
