Pierre Hodgson
Writing
Known For

On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?
Handling the Undead

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Paradise Now

A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.
The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.
Sombre

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.
Get a Life

The story takes place in an around Lebanon. It concerns Farid, a repentant Islamic fundamentalist and Charles, a French diplomat. Farid is prepared to give the French secret service a list of names of terrorists operating in France on the condition that they liberate a friend of his imprisoned in France. The deal is complicated by the fact that Farid and Charles are irresistably attracted to each other, which inflames great jealously in Charles' wife, Juliette, estranging the couple.
The Infidels

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.
Black Shoes

The first documentary about France's post punk and cold wave scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During an art show at agnès b. gallery in 2008, Jean-François Sanz has gathered some exceptional material that brings to light, through archival footage and about thirty interviews to the main players, the pop culture heritage of that moment.
Kids of Töday

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
In the Darkness of the Night

Pierre Hodgson explores in this documentary race relations in the States as well as his father’s past in journalism.