Official Selection
Venice International Film Festival

Winner Best screenplay
Premios Goya, Spanish Film Academy

Nominated for Best Latin-American film
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Antonio de la Torre)
Premios Goya, Spanish Film Academy

Foreign Language Film Candidate (Uruguay)
Oscar Academy Awards

Winner Best Foreign Film
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards

Winner Best Screenplay
Nominated for Best Film
Nominated for Best Director
Academy of Motion Picture Arts of Argentina

Winner Best Ibero-American Film Grand Prix
Winner Audience Award for Best Film
Academy of Motion Picture of Brasil

Nominated for Best Ibero-American Film
Academy of Motion Picture Arts of Mexico (Ariel Awards)

Winner Eurimages & Arte Best film project
Berlin International Film Festival

Winner Best Sound
European Film Awards EFA, European Film Academy

Nominated for Best Film
Nominated for Best Director
Nominated for Best Screenplay
Nominated for Best Music
Nominated for Best Art
Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano

Nominated Best Latin American Film
Premios José María Forqué 2019

Winner Golden Pyramid for Best Film
Cairo International Film Festival

Winner Best Film (Fipresci Jury)
Cairo International Film Festival

Winner Best Screenplay
CEC - Cinema Writers Circle Awards (Spain)

Winner Special Jury Award
Winner Audience Award for Best Film
Winner Ecumenical Award
Fribourg International Film Festival

Winner Best Director
Winner Best Screenplay
Winner Best Actor (Alfonso Tort)
Winner Audience Award
Huelva Film Festival 2019

Winner Audience Award for Best Film
Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Winner Audience Award for Best Film
Amiens International Film Festival

Winner Audience Award for Best Film
Biarritz International Film Festival

Nominated Best Film
Premios Asecan del Cine Andaluz 2019
Winner Best Film
Cannes Cinéphiles 2019

Nominated Best Film
Dias de Cine Awards

Winner Best Film
Oostende Film Festival

Winner Best Film
Winner Best Director
Winner Best Actor
Uruguayan Film Critics Association

Winner Best Film
CIBRA Festival Internacional de Cine y Palabra

Winner Best Film Glauber Rocha
Winner Best Film Casa de América
Winner Best Film Press Association
La Habana International Film Festival

"An impressive work that further confirms writer-director Alvaro Brechner as one of the leading South American screen talents to emerge in the last decade. It’s impossible not to be moved by the characters’ climactic return to society, or to be engaged by the craft and performance commitment on display here." VARIETY

"A Twelve Year Night avoids the easy trappings of triumph-of-the-human-spirit narratives. Sometimes a human simply withstands what it’s subjected to, and that’s enough to rivet us." LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Brechner manages to make his audience experience the prisoners’ descent into the sewers of inhumanity without losing hope or confidence in freedom and life. While the excellent work on image, editing and sound, combined with fantastic performances by the three main actors, creates a feeling of suffocation, cruelty and abuse that the viewer personally experiences both physically and mentally." CINEUROPA

"Renouncing a discourse on the ideological, Brechner opts for the universality of the sensory experience of those who, deprived even of the word, maintained a pulse with madness." EL PAIS

"Such a risky, passionate and morally precise film ... We are facing one of the key films of the Latin American cinema." FOTOGRAMAS

"Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín y Alfonso Tort, three sublime actors who instantly are entering to the Pantheon of combat cinema." PREMIERE

"Uruguayan director Alvaro Brechner signs an essential film." PARIS MATCH

"For 122 minutes the psychological tension of such imprisonment, Brechner succeeds in making us forget the extradiegetic concerning the happy ending while translating the hope that allowed them to live." ROLLING STONE

"A powerful film: the human being in the depths of his condition." L’HUMANITÉ

"Alvaro Brechner reconstitutes this era of lead, with talent and we experience the privilege to discover the spark of humanity which remains in the most total night." TELERAMA

The History:
https://vimeo.com/670002257/833c72ce1d

The Leading Actors:
https://vimeo.com/670002077/f4980696d9

The Casting:
https://vimeo.com/670002158/9bd89a9f75

Characterization:
https://vimeo.com/670001981/bfcdc21a74

Mujica:
https://vimeo.com/670002318/6547b9d878