Álvaro Brechner

Alvaro Brechner
Born (1976-04-09) 9 April 1976
Montevideo, Uruguay
OccupationsFilm director, producer, screenwriter

Álvaro Brechner (9 April 1976, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Spanish-Uruguayan film director, screenwriter and producer based in Madrid. He won the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for A Twelve-Year Night (2018).

Brechner has written and directed the feature films Bad Day to Go Fishing (2009), Mr. Kaplan (2014) and A Twelve-Year Night, which screened at major international festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival. All three films were selected as Uruguay's official submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Variety magazine described him as "one of the leading South American screen talents to emerge in the last decade”. He received the Faro de Honor lifetime achievement award at the Santander International Film Festival.

In 2025, he directed Mägo de Oz: The Movie, a large-scale international production about the Spanish folk metal band Mägo de Oz. [1]

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