"a striking auteur"
Eduardo E. Solera, Mailuki Films (ES)
"multi-award-winning film director"
Wendy Ide, Screen Daily (UK)
THE LAST BATH is set in a sun-drenched UNESCO Heritage Douro valley. It premiered at TIFF Tokyo, Mostra São Paulo, 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 GDA Screen Actors Guild Newcomer Award; and the Rimbaud du Cinéma for Best Directing, Paris.
GYPSY premiered at Locarno, Hamptons and SXSW. It won more than 30 awards.
HEIKO was a Slamdance, Toronto Inside Out and Melbourne Queer nominee, winning Best Short at MIX:CPH.
Retrospectives of his films were held at Seoul Art Cinema (KOR); QuestEurope (PL); IDEM (ES); APLA; Selar Cinema; LABasement and Regent Street Cinema (UK); LFF and Biennale Cinema Leiria; Cinemateca-Film Museum; TVCine; ESMAD; CITAR-Catholic University of Portugal; Batalha Cinema Centre (PT).
David started his career as an assitant to Turner-winner Douglas Gordon, Palme d'Or winner Manoel de Oliveira, and he also worked at the BCC.
Bonneville holds a Screewriting MA, a Film Directing Diploma and a Media BA. He is a lecturer, mentor and juror at a diversity of structures.
David has been Selection Committee member for Portugal’s 2024 Best International Film OSCAR submission.
FILMOGRAPHY
2025 OCTAMERON (in post-production)
2025 DOG DAYS (in post-production)
2024 DE FIO A PAVIO (music video)
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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