"a striking auteur"
Eduardo E. Solera, Mailuki Films (ES)

"multi-award-winning film director"
Wendy Ide, Screen Daily (UK)


David Bonneville has written and directed the feature film The Last Bath, set in a sun-drenched UNESCO Heritage Douro valley. It premiered at TIFF Tokyo, Mostra São Paulo, Santa Barbara, and was an Ingmar Bergman Award nominee at the Gothenburg Film Festival. The film won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Art Direction at the Academy of Motion Pictures Sophia Awards, the Golden Globe for Best Actress, the Actors Guild Newcomer Award, and Best Film and Directing accolades in Paris, Rome, Vancouver, Santorini and Oslo.

His short films Heiko (IndieLisboa, Slamdance, Toronto InsideOut), L'Arc-en-Ciel (Fantasporto), and Gypsy (SXSW, Hamptons, Locarno) have garnered praise from film festivals, critics and audiences alike.

Retrospectives of his films were held at Seoul Art Cinema (South Korea); QuestEurope (Poland); IDEM (Spain); Selar Cinema; L.A.Basement and Regent Street Cinema (UK); LFF and Biennale Cinema Leiria; Cinemateca-Film Museum; NOS Lusomundo; CITAR-Catholic University of Portugal; Batalha Cinema Centre (Portugal).




FILMOGRAPHY
XXX HUMAN SKIN [series]
202X DOG DAY (completed)
2024 DE FIO A PAVIO
2023 A SILENT FILM
2021 CONTAGION (segment)
2020 THE LAST BATH
2017 KARMA
2015 FAREWELL
2013 GYPSY
2010 SIR KEN ADAM’S BERLINALE BIRTHDAY STATEMENT
2009 EDEN
2009 L´ARC-EN-CIEL
2008 HEIKO
2007 PHOTOMATON
2007 A VARANDA
2005 MAQUETTE
2004 LE DÉJEUNER RÉPÉTER
2001 LE TEMPS (co-director)
2000 A SUPERCOLLA



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E-mail: dbonneville1(( a t ))gmail.com

Phone: +44 (0)75000 58 133

Skype: david_bonneville

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