"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 World Heritage Douro Valley. The film received a four-star review from The Guardian and premiered at TIFF Tokyo, Mostra São Paulo, Santa Barbara, and was an Ingmar Bergman Award nominee at the Gothenburg Film Festival. It won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Art Direction Academy of Motion Pictures Sophia Awards, the Best Actress Golden Globe, the Actors Guild Newcomer Award, and Best Film and Director accolades in Paris, Rome, Vancouver, Oslo, among others. The film was released in Europe, the UK, North America, Australia, Africa and Japan.
His short films HEIKO [Slamdance, TIFF, Melbourne Queer], L'ARC-EN-CIEL [Fantasporto, Seoul], GYPSY [SXSW, Hamptons, Locarno] and DOG DAY [IndieLisboa] have garnered praise from the film industry and audiences alike.
Retrospectives of his films were held at festivals and cinemas across South Korea, Poland, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Bonneville holds an MA in Screenwriting (UoW), a BA in Sound&Image (UCP/UPF), and a directing diploma (DFFB/Gulbenkian Foundation). He has an established career as a lecturer, having taught or given masterclasses at institutions including the Leipzig University, Masaryk University, University of Westminster, The Actors Centre, American Arts Center, FCSH Nova, UCP, ESAD, ETIC, ACT, Árvore, Serralves Museum, among others.
FILMOGRAPHY
XXX HUMAN SKIN [series]
2026 DOG DAY
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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