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Directed by Davi Pretto

Info

Director: Davi Pretto
Section: CineRebels Competition
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Year: 2024
PT: CONTINENTE
OT: CONTINENTE
Language: French, Portuguese
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Olivia Torres, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Corentin Fila, Breno de Filippo, Silvia Duarte
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A world premiere: Socio-political realism evolves into bloody postcolonial horror.

After spending 15 years abroad, Amanda returns to her family farm in southern Brazil. Her father, who owns the farm, is on his deathbed. Helô, the only doctor in the area, attends to the farmhands, who are getting increasingly nervous. Soon Amanda, her boyfriend Martin, and Helô become entangled in a mysterious ritual involving the village and the farm owners.

Show calendar

Calendar

  • (only P&I)
    City 3
  • After the film: Q&A with Davi Pretto, Olivia Torres and team

    HFF Kino 1
  • After the film: Q&A with Davi Pretto Olivia Torres and team

    City 2

Meet the director

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Davi Pretto

Davi Pretto is a Brazilian screenwriter and director. CASTANHA, his first feature film, premiered at the Berlinale in 2014. RIFLE (2017) was also screened at the Berlinale and FID Marseille and was awarded the Grand Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival. His third feature film, CONTINENTE, is celebrating its world premiere at the Munich International Film Festival this year.

Credits

Screenplay: Davi Pretto, Igor Verde, Paola Wink
Director of Photography: Luciana Baseggio
Film Editor: Valeria Racioppi (SAE)
Composer: Rita Zart, Bruno Vargas, Carlos Ferreira
Production Designer: Bea Gerolin
Costume Design: Samy Sill
Sound: Marcos Lopes, Tiago Bello, Leandro de Loredo, Facundo Gómes
Sound design: Tiago Bello
Make-up artist: Juliane Senna
Casting director: Sofia Ferreira
Producer: Paola Wink, Jessica Luz
Production Company: Vulcana Cinema
Executive producer: Paola Wink, Jessica Luz
Co-Producer: David Hurst, Cecilia Salim, Georgina Baisch
Co-Production Company: Dublin Films, Murillo Cine, Pasto