Ossos

Ossos
Directed by	Pedro Costa
Written by	Pedro Costa
Produced by	Paulo Branco
Starring	Vanda Duarte Nuno Vaz Mariya Lipkina Isabel Ruth Inês de Medeiros
Cinematography	Emmanuel Machuel
Edited by	Jackie Bastide
Release date	2 September 1997 (1997-09-02) (Venice Film Festival)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Portugal
Language	Portuguese

Ossos (English: "Bones") is a 1997 Portuguese film directed by Pedro Costa.

The film was shot in the Fontainhas district of Lisbon (also known as "Estrela d'Africa"), where disadvantaged dwellers and immigrants from former Portuguese colonies in Africa live desperate lives.

The story's focus is on a young girl and her lover who become parents of an unwanted baby. Their ambiguous tendencies keep this downbeat story moving around the shanty town. The director's ascetic style and this district's faded cityscape emphasize the depressing tone of the film.

This drama film with some documentary elements made Pedro Costa acclaimed internationally. It was nominated for Golden Lion prize at the Venice International Film Festival in 1997.

He further dealt with the now-defunct shanty district in his next film, No Quarto da Vanda.

See also

• No Quarto da Vanda
• Juventude em Marcha
• Docufiction
• List of docufiction films
• Ethnofiction
• Cinéma vérité

External links

• Ossos at IMDb
• ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Ossos at AllMovie
• Podcast with Pedro Costa (on the "Letters from Fontainhas" Criterion DVD set, 2010), GreenCine Daily
• Pedro Costa’s Fontainhas Trilogy: Rooms for the Living and the Dead by Cyril Neyrat
• Conversation between Pedro Costa and Jean-Pierre Gorin