Sérgio da Costa
Sérgio DA COSTA (1984, Switzerland) holds a Cinema degree from the Haute École d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva. He directed two short films, Interview with Almiro Vilar da Costa (2009) and Snack-bar Aquário (2010), before starting to work with Maya Kosa. In 2010 he directed the short film The Engineer and the Prosthetist with her. In 2015 they made their first feature-length documentary Rio Corgo. Their second feature-length documentary L’île aux oiseaux premiered at Locarno 2019.
Filmography
Interview with Almiro Vilar da Costa (2009, short), Snack-bar Aquário (2010, short), The Engineer and the Prosthetist (2010, short, co-dir), Rio Corgo (2015, co-dir), L’île aux oiseaux/Bird Island (2019, co-dir)
Sérgio da Costa op IFFR
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L’île aux oiseaux
Maya Kosa, Sérgio da Costa | 60' | Switzerland | None
Heart-warming look at a bird rescue centre, a microcosm where lost souls and wounded birds find one another.