Draft:Davi Pretto

Brazilian film director and writer with films selected for festivals such as Berlin and Karlovy Vary

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Davi Pretto (Porto Alegre, June 16 1988) is a Brazilian film director, best known for the films Castanha (2014), Rifle (2016), Continente (2024) and Future Future (2025).

Career

He graduated in cinema at PUCRS em 2008. At the age of 25, he premiered his feature debut Castanha^[1] at the Forum section of the 64th Berlin Film Festival in 2014. The film won Best Film ^[2]at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in the New Trends section and also competed in festivals such as Edinburgh^[3], Hong Kong^[4], Bafici^[5] and Havana.

In 2017, his second feature, the neo-western Rifle^[6][7], was presented at the Forum section of the 67th Berlin Film Festival and later at the FID Marseille^[8]. The film won the Grand Prize^[9] at the Jeonju Film Festival and the Critics Prize and Best Screenplay Award^[10] at the 49th Brasília Film Festival.

He was a DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence^[11] fellow in 2018.

His third feature, the horror drama Continent, was made in co-production between Brazil, France and Argentina, with the support of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund^[12] and San Sebastián Film Festival - WIP Latam section^[13]. In 2024, Continent^[14] was screened in the main competition of the 57th Sitges Film Festival and won Best Director^[15][16] at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in the New Trends section.

His fourth feature, the lo-fi sci-fi Future Future ^[17][18][19], was selected for the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Proxima competition.

He has also written and directed ten short films, including Waiting Room ^[20](2009), co-directed with Bruno Carboni, Como se Vive, Como se Torce (2014), Half Man, Half Ghost^[21][22] (2015) and Foreign Desert Archived 2020-12-01 at the Wayback Machine (2020). A retrospective of his work was presented at the Arsenal Film Institut in Berlin.

Filmography

Feature Films

• Future Future (86min, 2025)
• Continent (115min, 2024)
• Rifle (88min, 2016)
• Castanha (95min, 2014)

Short Films

• Foreign Desert (23min, 2020)
• Half Man, Half Ghost (30min, 2015)
• Como se Vive, Como se Torce (13min, 2014).
• Bagagem (16min, 2014).
• De Passagem (11min, 2012).

• Metro (14min, 2010).
• Waiting Room (12min, 2009). co-dirigido com Bruno Carboni.

Awards

Best Director Award in the New Trends section at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival for Continente (2024).^[23]

Critics' Prize at the Brasília Film Festival for Rifle (2016).^[24]

Best Screenplay Award at the Brasília Film Festival for Rifle (2016).^[24]

Grand Prize at the Jeonju Film Festival for Rifle (2016).[1]^[9]

Best Film Award at Panorama Coisa de Cinema for Rifle (2016).^[25]

Outstanding Award at Cine Esquema Novo for Rifle (2016).^[26]

Outstanding Art Exploration Award at the Beijing International Short Film Festival for Half Man, Half Ghost (2015).^[27]

Best Film Award at the Novos Rumos show at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival for Castanha (2014).^[28]

Feisal Special Mention Award at Bafici for Castanha (2014).^[29]

Special Mention Revelation Award at the São Paulo Short Film Festival for Quarto de Espera (2009).[5]

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