VITALINA VARELA Director Q&A | TIFF 2019

The latest from Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa (Colossal Youth) refracts and expands an episode from his previous feature Horse Money, in which 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. Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa returns to the Festival with another haunting portrait of the souls that populate the tenebrous tenements, alleys, and forests of Fontainhas, the now-vanished Lisbon neigh