Davi Pretto

Davi Pretto

Nacimiento : , Porto Alegre, Brazil

Historia

Davi Pretto (Porto Alegre, 1988) directed two feature films, both of which premiered at Berlinale Forum. His debut CASTANHA (2014) competed in festivals such as Rio de Janeiro (Best Film New Trends), Bafici (Feisal Award Special Mention), Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Havana. RIFLE (2016) was screened in festivals such as Jeonju (Grand Prize), FID Marseille, Brasília (Critics Prize, Best Screenplay) and Cairo, among others.  In 2018, he was invited to DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence. In the same year, a retrospective of his work was presented at Arsenal Film Institut in Berlin.

Perfil

Davi Pretto

Películas

Foreign Desert
Foreign Desert
Editor
A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods.
Foreign Desert
Foreign Desert
Screenplay
A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods.
Foreign Desert
Foreign Desert
Director
A young Brazilian, who has just started working in a huge forest in Berlin, is dragged into a nightmare involving the German colonial past when he tries to find a girl lost in the woods.
Rifle
Rifle
Screenplay
Rifle
Rifle
Director
The Roof Above Us
The Roof Above Us
Producer
Squatters living in an abandoned building receive a notice that they may be evicted some time soon. While Anna tries to deal with the news, she has to confront a mysterious man lying in her bed.
Half Man, Half Ghost
Half Man, Half Ghost
Writer
The whole life of man is but a point in time. HALF MAN, HALF GHOST is the latest exploration by Davi Pretto after his first feature-film CASTANHA. Pretto shows us an old man’s slow disappearing process, in a far and remote area in the south of Brazil. A man that represents an old style of men that inhabited this region, but no longer exists. Somewhere between an ethnographic documentary and a fantasy, a journey into darkness and oblivion.
Half Man, Half Ghost
Half Man, Half Ghost
Director
The whole life of man is but a point in time. HALF MAN, HALF GHOST is the latest exploration by Davi Pretto after his first feature-film CASTANHA. Pretto shows us an old man’s slow disappearing process, in a far and remote area in the south of Brazil. A man that represents an old style of men that inhabited this region, but no longer exists. Somewhere between an ethnographic documentary and a fantasy, a journey into darkness and oblivion.
Castanha
Castanha
Writer
Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.
Castanha
Castanha
Director
Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.
Metro
Metro
Screenplay
a short film by Davi Pretto.
Metro
Metro
Director
a short film by Davi Pretto.
Waiting Room
Waiting Room
Producer
A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city.
Waiting Room
Waiting Room
Screenplay
A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city.
Waiting Room
Waiting Room
Director
A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city.
Casa no Campo
Casa no Campo
Writer
After 15 years of living abroad, Amanda returns home with her French boyfriend, Martin. They arrive at her family's large-scale farm, located in a secluded village on the endless plains of southern Brazil. There, Amanda finds her father in a coma in the midst of increasing tension among the workers. The sole doctor in the nearby village is Helô, a young woman who resigns herself to caring for the local townspeople. The imminent death of the farm owner will put Amanda, Martin, and Helô at the heart of a disturbing settlement between the village and the farm owners.
Casa no Campo
Casa no Campo
Director
After 15 years of living abroad, Amanda returns home with her French boyfriend, Martin. They arrive at her family's large-scale farm, located in a secluded village on the endless plains of southern Brazil. There, Amanda finds her father in a coma in the midst of increasing tension among the workers. The sole doctor in the nearby village is Helô, a young woman who resigns herself to caring for the local townspeople. The imminent death of the farm owner will put Amanda, Martin, and Helô at the heart of a disturbing settlement between the village and the farm owners.