Gonzalo Delgado

Writing

Gonzalo Delgado

Born 1975-03-23 · Montevideo, Uruguay

Gonzalo Delgado (Montevideo, 1975) is a Uruguayan writer, actor, and art director.

Acting credits

The Apostate poster
5.4

A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith.

The Apostate

2015

A Useful Life poster
6.1

A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.

A Useful Life

2010

Severina poster
6.4

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?

Severina

2017

The Snatch Thief poster
6.4

In the Argentinian city of Tucumán, Miguel is making a living as a “motochorro”, a thief who snatches people’s belongings fromhis motorbike. When he steals the purse of Elena, an old woman, he ends up hurting her badly. After the brutal incident, Miguel is plagued by guilt and unable to forget about his victim. In an attempt to make things right, he conceals his true identity from the old woman and starts to take care of the injured and unsuspecting Elena. The closer he gets to her the more he becomes entangled in his own lies. Afraid of telling Elena the truth, Miguel continues to be haunted by his past and is unable to find true redemption.

The Snatch Thief

2018

Belmonte poster
5.0

Federico Veiroj’s fourth feature examines the many, often contradictory layers that make up one’s persona, in this case, a single dad and acclaimed artist who must learn to balance family with creativity.

Belmonte

2019

Dolphins Go East poster
6.0

Miguel Ángel García Mazziotti, a Río de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, receives the visit of his daughter Virginia, of whom he has been distanced for years. "The Fat", as everybody calls him in Punta del Este, openly rejects her visit, but when realizes will become a grandfather he can't help getting thrilled and celebrate Virginia's happiness. As a result they share a real familiar weekend that, as many families, to be happy it has to be fake.

Dolphins Go East

2016

Behind the camera

The Apostate poster
5.4

A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith.

The Apostate

2015

Plumitas calientes poster
10.0

A young man recalls the afternoon in his childhood when he discovered religion and sex.

Plumitas calientes

1994

3 poster
5.1

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.

3

2012

Whisky poster
6.9

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.

Whisky

2004

A Useful Life poster
6.1

A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life as the cinema he's worked at for over 25 years faces closure.

A Useful Life

2010

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet poster
6.4

Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

2021

Dolphins Go East poster
6.0

Miguel Ángel García Mazziotti, a Río de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, receives the visit of his daughter Virginia, of whom he has been distanced for years. "The Fat", as everybody calls him in Punta del Este, openly rejects her visit, but when realizes will become a grandfather he can't help getting thrilled and celebrate Virginia's happiness. As a result they share a real familiar weekend that, as many families, to be happy it has to be fake.

Dolphins Go East

2016

Dolphins Go East poster
6.0

Miguel Ángel García Mazziotti, a Río de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, receives the visit of his daughter Virginia, of whom he has been distanced for years. "The Fat", as everybody calls him in Punta del Este, openly rejects her visit, but when realizes will become a grandfather he can't help getting thrilled and celebrate Virginia's happiness. As a result they share a real familiar weekend that, as many families, to be happy it has to be fake.

Dolphins Go East

2016

Dolphins Go East poster
6.0

Miguel Ángel García Mazziotti, a Río de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, receives the visit of his daughter Virginia, of whom he has been distanced for years. "The Fat", as everybody calls him in Punta del Este, openly rejects her visit, but when realizes will become a grandfather he can't help getting thrilled and celebrate Virginia's happiness. As a result they share a real familiar weekend that, as many families, to be happy it has to be fake.

Dolphins Go East

2016