Á L V A R O B R E C H N E R

Bio.

Álvaro Brechner was born in 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

His feature film debut BAD DAY TO GO FISHING premiered in Cannes (Critic’s Week) and was the Uruguayan candidate for the Academy Awards in 2009.

He directed MR. KAPLAN in 2014 which was selected at the BFI London Film Festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Havana Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Fribourg and Huelva Film Festival and was the Uruguayan candidate for the Academy Awards. It was nominated for Best Iberoamerican Film for the Goya.

Brechner's third film A TWELVE-YEAR NIGHT premiered in Venice in 2018. It was the Uruguayan candidate for the Academy Awards in 2019 and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at Spain's Goya Awards.

An exceptional and versatile storyteller, Alvaro Brechner approaches his characters with great empathy and his mastery of genres and styles from comedy to melodrama enables him to reach any audience.

“As a viewer and a director, for me the only worthwhile films are those that try to explore the human condition.”