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 (Tokyo, Gothenburg; Best Picture, Best Screenplay at the Sophia Academy Awards), and short films that have garnered praise from critics and audiences alike, such as Gypsy (SXSW, Hamptons, Locarno) and Heiko (Melbourne Queer, TIFF Cluj, Toronto InsideOut).
Bonneville holds a Screenwriting & Producing MA (University of Westminster), a Film Directing Diploma (DFFB/FCG), and a Media BA (UCP/UPF). He also leads workshops, lectures and is a film competition jury at a global scale.
THE LAST BATH is 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 FF. 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 Directing Awards in Vancouver and Paris.
GYPSY premiered at Locarno, Tampere, Hamptons and SXSW. It won more than 30 Awards.
HEIKO was a Slamdance, IndieLisboa and Melbourne Queer nominee. It won Best Short at MIX:CPH, Denmark.
Retrospectives of his films were held at Seoul Art Cinema (KOR); QuestEurope (POL); IDEM (ESP); 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 (PT).
FILMOGRAPHY
XXX HUMAN SKIN [series]
202X DOG DAY (completed, awaiting premiere)
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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