Inés Bortagaray

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Inés Bortagaray

Born May 22, 1975 · Salto, Uruguay (age 51)

Inés Bortagaray (Salto, 1975) is a Uruguayan screenwriter, book author, and teacher. She has written several award-winning films, including A Useful Life (2010) and Invisible Life (2019).

Known For

Invisible LifeInvisible Life · 2019
Invisible Life
7.82019
MovieDrama
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
The SharksThe Sharks · 2019
The Sharks
6.22019
MovieDrama
While a rumor about the presence of sharks in a small beach town distracts residents, 14-year-old Rosina begins to feel an instinct to shorten the distance between her body and Joselo's.
La PerraLa Perra · 2026
La Perra
2026
MovieDrama
On a remote, wind-lashed island off the Chilean coast, Silvia earns her living harvesting seaweed and shares a quiet life with her partner. When she adopts a stray puppy, Yuri, her days fill with joy, love, and a tenderness that stirs a long-suppressed longing for motherhood. But Yuri’s sudden disappearance reawakens a haunting childhood trauma, forcing Silvia to confront a past she has never truly left behind.
A Useful LifeA Useful Life · 2010
A Useful Life
6.12010
MovieDramaComedy
A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.
WhiskyWhisky · 2004
Whisky
6.92004
MovieComedyDrama
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.
My Friend from the ParkMy Friend from the Park · 2015
My Friend from the Park
6.52015
MovieComedyDrama
While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.
Welcome, Violeta!Welcome, Violeta! · 2023
Welcome, Violeta!
7.32023
MovieThriller
Over the course of her stay at the remote residence, Ana becomes more and more familiar with Holden’s idiosyncratic methods that require the participating artists to abandon their own identities and live emotionally and psychologically as their characters. Captivated by her artistic investigation, Ana immerses herself wholly into the method and starts living as Violeta, until her fiction loses control.
33 · 2012
3
5.12012
MovieComedyDrama
Dissatisfied with his new life (and wife), a man tries to insinuate himself back into the home of the ex-wife and daughter he left ten years before.

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