Davi Pretto

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Davi Pretto

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 present…

Known For

Foreign DesertForeign Desert · 2020
Foreign Desert
2020
MovieDramaMystery
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.
Future FutureFuture Future · 2026
Future Future
2026
MovieScience FictionDrama
In a rainy Brazilian city, an amnesic man is taken in by a lonely clickworker at a course for people with a strange neurological syndrome. After using an addictive AI device, he embarks on a tragic and absurd journey to find where he truly belongs.
CastanhaCastanha · 2014
Castanha
★ 6.02014
MovieDrama
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.
GarryGarry · 2012
Garry
2012
MovieDrama
A young filmmaker faces off against the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov. During the match, Garry makes powerful comments about the power of strategy, learning to make decisions and defeat.
RifleRifle · 2017
Rifle
★ 5.82017
MovieDramaWestern
Dione is a mysterious young man living with a family in a rural and remote place in the southern Brazilian plains. The quietness of the region is disturbed when a rich landowner tries to buy the small property where Dione and the family live.
ContinentContinent · 2024
Continent
★ 6.02024
MovieHorrorDrama
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.
DrawerDrawer · 2010
Drawer
2010
MovieDrama
A man in search of space.
Princesa Morta do JacuíPrincesa Morta do Jacuí · 2018
Princesa Morta do Jacuí
2018
MovieScience Fiction
The archaeologist Margot Moreira returns to his place of birth, the exclusion zone called Central Depression, in southern Brazil. There, the sun never stops shining.

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