Ico Costa Filmes

Life is not the most fulfilling for sixteen-year-old Meng: Lounging at home with his grieving father on a daily basis, being excluded from his...

Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering...

When her mother dies, 40-year-old Helena now has time for herself after years of taking care of her family. She works at a film production company,...

X, a film location scout, spend his time travelling from place to place looking for filming locations, at the same time that he's looking for funding...

Domingos and Neusia are a young couple from a small city in Mozambique. She goes to school, he has an underpaid job at a car wash. Yearning for a...

Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond...

Henrique lives alone in the mountains in Portugal. Having his children been taken away by the social services, one day he searches for the...

A group of Indigenous Achuar children that moves self-determined through the endless green. Along the course of the Pastaza river, on the border...

In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to...

A dive into the heart of Timkat, a fascinating purification ritual in which moments of joy, trance and religious devotion reveal a certain pride in...

In a mountain village in the north of Portugal, a murder occurred. A sixteen-year-old boy leaves the house barefoot, under the cold night, towards...

A current of flow

In Hindu mythology, RAHU is the severed head of a demon responsible for swallowing the sun and causing the eclipses. It is also Alex Zhang Hungtai,...