Director
Davi Pretto
Porto Alegre, Brazil · 9 films
Davi Pretto is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. At the age of 25, he premiered his feature debut "Castanha" at the Forum section of the 64th Berlin Film Festival in 2014. The film also competed in festivals such as Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Bafici, Havana and Rio de Janeiro, where it won Best Film in the New Trends section. In 2017, his second feature, the neo-western "Rifle", was presented at the Forum section of the 67th Berlin Film Festival and later at the FID Marseille. The film won the Grand Prize at the Jeonju Film Festival and the Critics Prize and Best Screenplay Award at the 49th Brasília Film Festival. He was a DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence 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. In 2024, "Continent" was shown in the main competition of the 57th Sitges Film Festival and won Best Director at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in the New Trends section. His fourth feature, the lo-fi sci-fi "Future Future", was selected for the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Proxima competition and won Best Film and Best Screenplay at the 58th Brasília Film Festival.
Best known for
Filmography 9
Future Future
2026 · Director, Screenplay
Continent
2024 · Director, Writer
Foreign Desert
2020 · Screenplay, Director
Princesa Morta do Jacuí
2018 · Producer
Rifle
2017 · Director, Screenplay
Half Man, Half Ghost
2015 · Director, Writer
Como se Vive, Como se Torce
2014 · Director, Writer
Castanha
2014 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Waiting Room
2009 · Screenplay, Producer