Bio Note

Born in 1996 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Bernardo Zanotta grew up working in a local video store and behind the scenes in theatre production before migrating to the Netherlands in 2014. There, he graduated from the Moving Image department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018.

His short films, rooted in the interplay between the familiar and the fantastical, have gained international recognition, including at the Locarno Film Festival, where his 2018 film Heart of Hunger won the Pardino d’Argento Award.

Besides Locarno, his work has been presented at major festivals such as Rotterdam, FID Marseille, BAFICI, Cartagena, Berlin Critics’ Week, and Pesaro, amongst others. He is currently working on his first feature film.

Films

Tragédia
film | DV | 15min | colour | 2025

Wild Fruits
film | 16mm | 35min | colour | 2024

Insieme Insieme
film | 16mm | 37min | colour | 2022

In His Bold Gaze
film | DV | 20min | colour | 2.0 | 2020

Heart of Hunger
film | DV | 29min | colour | 5.1 | 2018

Quintal
film | 16mm | 9min | b&w | 2.0 | 2016

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Agenda

2025
Tragédia - Latin American Premiere
64th Cartagena International Film Festival
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
(1 - 6 April)

2025
Tragédia - National Short Film Competition
Go Short - Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(1 - 6 April)

2025
Tragédia - International Premiere
Berlin Critics’ Week
Berlin, Germany
(17 February)

2025
Tragédia - World Premiere
IFFR - International Film Festival Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(1 - 9 February)

2024
Wild Fruits + Insieme Insieme
Cinemateca Capitólio
Porto Alegre, Brazil
(6 December)

2024 - 2025
The Terminal Beach (with Anna Moreno)
Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque
Madrid, Spain
(26 November - 23 February)

2024
Spectacle Theatre
New York, United States of America
(11 - 14 November)

2024
Mostra Que Desejo - Cineclube Mirante
Maceió, Brazil
(25 - 30 November)

2024
Contemporary Biennial TEA
Tenerife, Spain
(25 October - 25 November)

2024
Wild Fruits - Bucharest Experimental Film Festival
Bucharest, Romania
(24 - 29 September)

2024
Wild Fruits - Queer Wave
Nicosia, Cyprus
(20 - 29 September)

2024
Wild Fruits - Helsinki International Film Festival
Helsinki, Finland
(19 - 29 September)

2024
Wild Fruits - Nederlands Film Festival
Forum van de Regisseurs
Utrecht, The Netherlands
(22 September)

2024
Wild Fruits - Queer Film Festival
Utrecht, The Netherlands
(2 September)

2024
Wild Fruits - EYE Filmmuseum
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(2 July)

2024
Wild Fruits - Leiden Shorts
Leiden, the Netherlands
(6 - 9 June)

2024
Wild Fruits - Sicilia Queer
Palermo, Italy
(25 - 31 May)

2024
Wild Fruits - Vera Zienema
Groningen, The Netherlands
(7 May)

2024
Wild Fruits - Studio/K
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(23 April)

2024
Wild Fruits - World Premiere
Rencontres Internationales du Moyen Métrage de Brive
Brive-la-Gaillarde, France
(11 April)

2023
INSIEME INSIEME
L'Archipel - Paris, France
(4 December)

2023
Suzi projects x Loods 6
Loods 6 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(22 - 23 September)

2023
INSIEME INSIEME - BAFICI Rosario
International Competition - Rosario, Argentina
(27 August)

2023
INSIEME INSIEME - Pozzo dei Miracoli
Bar dei Miracoli - Catania, Italy
(30 June)

2023
FURIA : ARTIFICIALIDAD - The Cinema of Bernardo Zanotta
Focus Program at Ciclo Rosa 2023
] Cinematheque of Bogotá - Bogotá, Colombia
(15 June - 29 June)

2023
INSIEME INSIEME - Italian Premiere
Mostra internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro
Pesaro, Italy
(22 June- 25 June)

2023
INSIEME INSIEME - South American Premiere
BAFICI - Buenos Aires, Argentina
(19 April - 1 May)

2023
INSIEME INSIEME - UK Premiere
BFI Flare - London, United Kingdom
(15 March - 25 March)

2022
INSIEME INSIEME - Queer Wave
Nicosia, Cyprus
(25 November - 4 December)

2022
INSIEME INSIEME - North American Premiere
Festival du Nouveau Cinema - Montréal, Canada
(October 8)
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2022
INSIEME INSIEME - Short Film Competition
Curtocircuíto - Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(October 6)

2022
INSIEME INSIEME + HEART OF HUNGER
Mudaeruk - Seoul, Korea
(October 6)

2022
INSIEME INSIEME Dutch Premiere
Eye Filmmuseum - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(September 27)

2022
INSIEME INSIEME + HEART OF HUNGER
Athénée Francais - Tokyo, Japan
(September 24)

2022
INSIEME INSIEME - Short Film Competition
Queer Lisboa - Lisbon, Portugal
(September 18)

2022
INSIEME INSIEME - World Premiere
FID Marseille -Marseille, France
(July 5 - July 11)

2019 - present
In His Bold Gaze + Heart of Hunger
streaming @ Kinoscope.org

2022
There must be some way out of here
duo exhibition with Leonie Kuipers
Goleb - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(July 22 - July 30)

2022
Prospects & Concepts
Art Rotterdam - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(May 19 - May 22)

2022
The Wealth of Nations
duo exhibition with Ana Bravo Pérez
Punt WG - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(April 2 - April 26)

2022
In His Bold Gaze
International Film Festival Rotterdam - 25 Encounters
(February 6 - March 6)

2021
Situational Awareness - duo residency with Leonie Kuipers
ZSenne Art Lab, Brussels, Belgium
(December 15 - December 29)

2021
The Private Eye : The Public Ear - solo exhibition
Stichting VHDG, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
(August 22 - September 22)

2021
Why Oracle Now - group exhibition
Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(May 7 - May 31)

2021
Artist in Residence - Takahuhti Art Centre - Tampere, Finland
(January 14 - February 1)

2020
In His Bold Gaze - Queer Lisboa - Lisbon, Portugal
(22nd September - Cinema São Jorge)

2020
Artist in Residency - Stichting VHDG -
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
(15 March to 22nd June)

2020
Carte blanche au Cinéma alternatif CAVIA - La Clef Revival - Paris, France
(15 March / Heart of Hunger)

2020
The Repossessed - WORM - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(14 to 16 February) / theatre/performance

2020
Not For Profit Art Party - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(6, 7, 8 February) / The Repossessed - work in progress + artists talk

2020
Collaborative Constellations - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(25 January) / Panel at International Film Festival Rotterdam

2020
Between Cannibals - Jan Van Eyck Academie - Maastricht, The Netherlands
(23 January) / solo screening

2019
Update - Galerie Sign - Groningen, The Netherlands
(21 to 31 December) / the skin of strangers

2019
AIR Night #2 - WOW - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(12 December) / the skin of strangers

2019
Prisme #2 MIRE cinéma expérimental & image mouvement - Nantes, France
(7 December) / Forgotten Matters (with Lennart Smidt)

2019
Bernardo Zanotta & Lennart Smidt à l'Etna - Paris, France
(5 December) / Forgotten Matters (with Lennart Smidt)

2019
ODAM x Amsterdam Art Weekend - Mediamatic
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(22 November) / Heart of Hunger

2019
Filmtheater de Uitkijk - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(23 October) / Between Cannibals

2019
Cine Rosa Imunda - Porto, Portugal
(30 September) / Heart of Hunger

2019
Queer Lisboa - Lisbon, Portugal
(24 September) / Heart of Hunger

2019
Eureka Festival Universitario de Cine - Bogotá, Colombia
(13 and 15 Septermber) / Heart of Hunger-

2019
A3 Queerformat - Vienna, Austria
(9 June) / Heart of Hunger

2019
34th Lovers Film Festival - Turin, Italy
(24 to 28 April) / Heart of Hunger

2019
Go Short - International Short Film Festival
Nijmegen, Netherlands
(3 to 7 April) / Heart of Hunger

2019
Vilnius International Film Festival - Vilnius, Lithuania
(21 March to 4 April) / Heart of Hunger

2019
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin - Paris, France
(5 to 10 March) / Heart of Hunger
2019
Switch Short Film Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands
(26 January) @ Roodkapje / Heart of Hunger

2018
Cine Esquema Novo - Porto Alegre, Brazil
(22 to 28 November) @ CEN / Heart of Hunger

2018
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest - London, United Kingdom
(18 November) @ Hackney House / Heart of Hunger

2018
Media Art Festival - Leeuwarden, Netherlands
(15 November - 2 December) @ MAF / video installation

2018
Counterculture NOW - Haarlem, Netherlands
(3 November) @ Nieuwe Vide / symposium

2018
Play With Fire - Manchester, United Kingdom
(27 September - 27 October) @ PS Mirabel / group exhibition

2018
2018 | LF2018 - Leeuwarden, Netherlands
(13 October) @ CBK Culturele Ambassade / artist talk

2018
Second Dawn / Haarlemse Herfst - Haarlem, Netherlands
(28 - 30 September) @ Stal Vosse / video installation

2018
AWL_025 Heart of Hunger / Those Who Are Fine
(5 September) @ WORM Rotterdam / screening

2018
Devouring the Other - Amsterdam, Netherlands
(16 September) @ Looiersgracht 60 / talk

2018
71st Locarno Film Festival - Locarno, Switzerland
Heart of Hunger - World Premiere (4,5,6,7 August) @ Pardi di Domani

2018
64th Kurzfilmtage - Oberhausen, Germany
(6 May - Labs Program) @ Lichtburg Filmpalast / screening

2018
Supermarket Independent Art Fair - Stockholm, Sweden
(12 - 15 April) @ Slaughterhouse 5 / art fair

2018
MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! - Haarlem, Netherlands
(23 March - 1 April) @ Nieuwe Vide / solo exhibition

2017
Passing Through - Jakarta, Indonesia
(29 November) @ KINOSAURUS / screening

2017
Back to the Future! Project! - Rotterdam, Netherlands
(4 November) @ WORM / performance

2017
"Thanks I will check into that, do you or can you point out a starting point where to look?"
Bremen, Germany (19 October) @ JuliasIdaGreen / artist talk

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Fringe Festival - Amsterdam, Netherlands
(16 September) @ de Vondelbunker / performance

2017
BIDEODROMO Festival 2017 - Bilbao, Spain
(13 September) @ Fundacion BilbaoArte / screening

2017
Underneath the Floorboards - London, United Kingdom
(3 May) @ Hackney Picturehouse / screening

2017
Y7 Symposium - Amsterdam, Netherlands
(21 April) @ LAB 111 / artist talk

2017
AIR - Worpswede, Germany (1 to 30 March)
@ Künstlerhäuser Worpswede / residency

2017
PROCESS Experimental Film Festival - Riga, Latvia
(22 to 25 March) @ Kino Bize / screening

2017
DE LIEFDE VOOR CELLULOID - Den Haag, Netherlands
(2 March) @ Stichting Ruimtevaart / screening

2016
Mattering Matter - Horn, Netherlands
(16 to 18 December) @ Hotel Maria Kapel / group exhibition

2016
Heading ZEROZERO - Helsinki, Finland
(21 to 25 November) @ Asematila / group exhibition

2016
PARRHESIA research lab - Groningen, Netherlands
(29 and 30 September) @ Academie Minerva / artist talk

2016
Vallen - zes zeer korte films- Vlissingen, Netherlands
(11 September) @ WILLEM 3 / screening

2016
DOBRA Festival de Cinema Experimental - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(2 September) @ Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna RJ / screening

2016
III. Dynamics - Groningen, Netherlands
(20 June) @ PS Platform / performance

2016
In Search of Thomas Pynchon - Haarlem, Netherlands
(16 January to 8 March) @ Nieuwe Vide / group exhibition

2016
Access To Tools - Groningen, Netherlands
(17 February) @ Y2 / screening

2016
Tactile Cinema - Groningen, Netherlands
(9 January) @ SIGN Gallery / screening

2015
PARRHESIA DEEL 3 - Groningen, Netherlands
(18 December) @ SIGN Gallery / performance

2015
Silent Ground - Emmen, Netherlands
(14 November to 10 January) @ CBK Emmen / duo exhibition

2015
Zeepkist 1 - Worpswede, Germany
(9 November) @ Künstlerhäuser Worpswede / group exhibition

2015
Global Super 8 Day - Rotterdam, Netherlands
(24 October) @ dePlayer / screening

2015
Flutkatastrophe - Haren, Netherlands
(28 June) @ Vleugel F, Biotoop / performance

2015
XENOGAMY // The Art of Mixing - Groningen, Netherlands
(10 October) @ EMG Faktors / performance

2014
Farol Expandido - Porto Alegre, Brazil
(April 22) @ Estúdio Hybrido / screening