Ffstivals including 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. It was the Uruguayan candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for Best Iberoamerican Film for the Goya Awards of the Spanish Film Academy, the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy of Film, and received 7 nominations at the 2nd Platino Awards, including Best Film of the year, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Photography, Best Editing, Best Sound and Best Art Direction. In 2014 Brechner was highlighted by Variety as one of the Up Next 10, a list of the most interesting directors and producers emerging from Latin America. In 2017 he was one of several Latin American directors interviewed in A Companion to Latin American Cinema, which also included Alejandro González Iñárritu, Pablo Larraín, Diego Luna and Martín Rejtman. Brechner's third film A Twelve-Year Night premiered as an Official Selection at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and San Sebastian Film Festival. It was the Uruguayan candidate for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2019 and for Best Adapted Screenplay at Spain's Goya Awards. A Twelve-Year Night was awarded at the co-production markets of Berlin International Film Festival and San Sebastián International Film Festival. Selected filmography Bad Day to Go Fishing (2009) Mr. Kaplan (2014) A Twelve-Year Night (2018) References External links Bad Day to go Fishing Official Website Álvaro Brechner – Cineuropa Living people 1976 births Uruguayan people of Polish-Jewish descent Catholic University of Uruguay alumni Uruguayan film directors Uruguayan film producers People from Montevideo Silver Condor Award for Best Ibero-American Film winners