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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.
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.
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.
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.
A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city.
The commotion and details of a day for different people to watch a Brazilian team game, observing the peculiarities and the invisible thread that unites them.
After using a strange AI device in a decadent course for unemployed people, a 40-year-old amnesic man gets obsessed with recurring absurd dreams, believing they are his life memories. Fourth feature film by the Brazilian director Davi Pretto.
During the early hours of the morning, a young man drives a car through the city streets and tries to get rid of a huge weight in his life.
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.
a short film by 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 won the Best Film at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in the New Trends section and also competed in festivals such as Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Bafici and Havana. In 2017, his second feature, the neo-western "Rifle", was presented at the Forum section of the 67th Berlin Film Festival. The film won the Grand Prize at Jeonju Film Festival and the Critics Prize and Best Screenplay Award at the 49th Brasília Film Festival. In 2018, he was an award fellow at the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence. 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 and San Sebastián Film Festival - WIP Latam section. In 2024, the film was screened in the main competition of the 57th Sitges Film Festival and won the Best Director Award at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival in the New Trends section. In the same year, Davi shot his fourth feature film, the lo-fi sci-fi "Future Future".
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