Isabela Costa

Directing

Isabela Costa

Place of birth

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Isabela Costa is a filmmaker from Rio de Janeiro focused on formal instability and deviation in narrative. Practicing in 16mm, Super 8, and digital formats, with additional work in 35mm still photography, she holds an MFA in Film/Video from CalArts.

Known for

Behind the camera

Somewhere Else poster
NR

Six immigrant women in Los Angeles reflect on intuition, perception, and the mythologies of the city. A collage of documentary footage, voiced recollections, and diaristic entries shapes lived experience and speculation into a shared vision of Los Angeles.

Somewhere Else

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Somewhere Else poster
NR

Six immigrant women in Los Angeles reflect on intuition, perception, and the mythologies of the city. A collage of documentary footage, voiced recollections, and diaristic entries shapes lived experience and speculation into a shared vision of Los Angeles.

Somewhere Else

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Ana & Oto poster
NR

In Rio de Janeiro, two friends who are almost codependent wander around alienated and afraid of boredom. Meanwhile, a filmmaker investigates these two young people.

Ana & Oto

2025

Living Fish poster
NR

A few days before the apocalypse, a lonely young woman has a revelation: she has been wrongly trying to fit in on Earth, as she is actually a sea creature.

Living Fish

2025

Living Fish poster
NR

A few days before the apocalypse, a lonely young woman has a revelation: she has been wrongly trying to fit in on Earth, as she is actually a sea creature.

Living Fish

2025

eternity on a loop poster
NR

An employee of God takes a break from heaven's bureaucracy and spends some time on Earth. Through the eyes of an angel, the mundane realms can be more mesmerizing than the rigidity within a perfect (and repetitive) paradise.

eternity on a loop

2021

eternity on a loop poster
NR

An employee of God takes a break from heaven's bureaucracy and spends some time on Earth. Through the eyes of an angel, the mundane realms can be more mesmerizing than the rigidity within a perfect (and repetitive) paradise.

eternity on a loop

2021