Petra Costa Movies
- 2013
Elena
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Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds of...
- 2019
The Edge of Democracy
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A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in...
- 2017
Nobody's Watching
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Nico is a famous actor in Argentina, but in New York, nobody takes notice. He needs to juggle bartending, babysitting and odd jobs to keep himself...
- 2020
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
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Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife,...
- 2015
Olmo and the Seagull
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'Olmo and the Seagull' is a poetic and existential dive into an actress's mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most...
- 2010
Secrets of the Tribe
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What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most...
- 2020
The Edge of Theocracy
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Jesus life and work goes through rumors, conspiracies, injuries, friendship and fanaticism. An emblematic figure of the 1st century, Jesus was a...
- 2017
Life in Gray
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A faux documentary about the ongoing social, political and economical crisis in Brazil, where the government cuts the colors of Rio de Janeiro,...
- 2022
Beba
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A raw, poetic self-portrait in which young, NYC-born Afro-Latina Rebeca “Beba” Huntt stares down historical, societal, and generational...
- 2011
Undertow Eyes
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Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from...
- 2024
Apocalypse in the Tropics
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When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian...
- 2020
Ecstasy
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Racked with anxiety in the chaotic political landscape of 1990s Brazil, Clara finds solace in starving herself, experiencing both rapture and...