(JUVENTUDE EM MARCHA, Portugal/France/Switzerland 2006, 154 min., Portuguese with subtitles, 35mm)

Costa’s most acclaimed work to date follows a retired laborer as he visits his fellow Cape Verdean immigrants in the housing project that has replaced a demolished Lisbon slum. Contemplative and beautifully photographed, Costa’s subjects deliver numerous strange and powerful monologues, collectively giving voice to those rarely heard. “Mysterious and wholly beguiling…gorgeously lighted as if a direct invocation of Vermeer”—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times.