Pedro Pinho lived and studied cinema in Lisbon, Paris, Barcelona, Maputo and Mindelo. His first documentary, Bab Sebta (co-directed with Frederico Lobo), debuted at FID Marseille, 2008, where it won the Marseille Espérance Award.

“The End of the World” (2013), a medium-length fiction film, debuted at Berlinale. The documentary, “Trading Cities” (co-directed with Luísa Homem) premiered in 2014 at FIDMarseille and was shown at Art of the Real at the Lincoln Center, NY. In 2017, he debuted “The Nothing Factory”, his first feature-length fiction film, at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight where he won the FIPRESCI award. Since then, “The Nothing Factory” has received around 20 awards at festivals all over the world. The film was commercially distributed in Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy, China, Belgium, the former Yugoslavia and Argentina.

His films have been shown at festivals, showings and retrospectives in places such as MoMA, Lincoln Center, BFI, MALBA, MACBA, Toronto, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, Festival do Rio, Mar del Plata, Festival dei Popoli, Busan, FICUNAM, ND/NF, Sevilla, Karlovy Vary, among many others.

In 2025, his newest film "O Riso e a Faca" premieres at Cannes Festival, under Un Certain Regard section, where the actress Cleo Diára, is awarded the Best Actress prize.