Films by Pedro Costa set in the neighborhood of Fontainhas with recurring characters Vanda, Ventura and Vitalina.
Ossos

NR1h 37m6.8

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A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.

In Vanda's Room

NR2h 51m7

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The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in.

Cavalo Dinheiro

NR1h 44m6.9

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"The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when...

Vitalina Varela

NR2h 4m6.7

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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.

The Fontainhas background