Alfonso Tort

Alfonso Tort

Birth : , Montevideo, Uruguay

History

Alfonso Tort (Montevideo, 1978) is a Uruguayan actor who started his career with 25 Watts (2001), and graduated from the Municipal School of Dramatic Art of Uruguay the same year.

Profile

Alfonso Tort

Movies

La ruptura
Pablo
A love story escaping neoliberal times.
Naufragios
Heartbroken, Maite arrives at a coastal town where the few residents live out their lonely lives. The peace soon disappears, when they come across an unconscious sailor on the beach one day, prompting Maite to decide whether to move forward and create a new life or remain stranded on those shores.
La burbuja
Jorge
A Blue Bird
Javier
For over six years, Javier and Valeria have been trying to get pregnant. At work Javier is approached by Camila, a coworker, and tells him she is pregnant with his baby. In the following days, his relationship—indeed, his entire existence—starts to fall apart.
Legítima defensa
Las intemperies
Lorenzo goes into the mountain range at the end of the world to look for a hermit, who may be his brother lost years ago. He needs to find him to release a heavy guilt, but for some villagers the stranger's questions threaten a secret that must not come to light.
Straight to VHS
Film Director
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.
Fantasma vuelve al pueblo
Fantasma
Demosthenes reappears in his village where he is known as "Ghost", just for the end of the year holidays, with no plans or goals. Luis Miguel, his old friend, gives him a job, and asks him to look for a pig to be slaughtered at the end of that week, in which friendship turns into a working relationship.
A Twelve-Year Night
Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro
Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
The Waves
Alfonso is exhausted after working and goes to the beach. He goes into the water and starts this fantastic journey through his different vacations in life, meeting old girlfriends, childhood friends, his daughter and his loneliness.
El Cinco
El Negro Iono
After being expelled for a flagrant foul during a match in Primera C (the fourth division in Argentinian football), Patón Bonasiolle, the captain and midfielder from Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. At the age of 35, this means the end of a world he has known since he was a child. Together with Ale - his wife - he looks for a fresh new start.
Capital (Todo el mundo va a Buenos Aires)
Sergio Astier
A broken heart makes Sergio reject the city......A city full of late adolescents, girls that make you cry, drunks worried about matters they couldn´t handle even sober...and songs that say all that they would have wanted to say (if they knew that they needed to say something)
Chronicle of an Escape
Jorge
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
Whisky
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.
25 Watts
Seba
24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.
Temas propios
Yañez