Horse Money  Horse Money (Portuguese: "Cavalo Dinheiro") is a 2014 Portuguese film directed by Pedro Costa. It premiered in August 2014 at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Direction. "Horse Money" was in competition for the Golden Leopard at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival. The film received critical acclaim. Matt Zoller Seitz, a film critic for "RogerEbert.com", gave the film three and a half out of four stars, stating that "the best approach [to "Horse Money"] is to surrender to it as you might a dream and let the images overwhelm you." The international film magazine "Sight & Sound" named it the third best film of 2014, behind "Boyhood" and "Goodbye to Language" while tying with the film "Leviathan".