
Directing
Walter Tournier
Born
1944-07-14 (82)
Place of birth
Montevideo, Uruguay
Known for
Directing
Credits
41 titles
Walter Tournier (born July 14, 1944) is a Uruguayan director of animated and documentary films, who is closely identified with that country's enterprising filmmaking community. His work has been well-received both at home and at film festivals in Latin America, Europe and the United States.
Known for
6.0A bed starts moving by itself, squeaking until it reaches its climax.
The Bed
2008
NRTwo humans and a dog try to find shelter during a storm, but nobody is paying attention to them.
We Want to be Alive
2005
NRTwo kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.
I Want
2000
6.2Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures. When Captain Bullock decides to abandon him on an uninhabited island, he discovers a new outlook on the world and learns to survive alone, becoming the real Robinson Crusoe.
Seven Seas Pirates
2012
NRThis is a movie about Uruguayans who want to make fiction films. We visited various filmmakers seeking to capture the enormous diversity of stories, realities, and sensibilities through the scripts they are writing. We get to know their neighborhoods and homes, and then we get closer to the ways in which each of them adapt the fantasies that have been born in their minds and hearts. In this way, we portray how they experience cinema and what would mean for them to make their film come true.
Ficción
2021
9.0A record of the works and reflections of this notable Uruguayan sculptor as a starting point to question the fate of art in our society, a question of how this artistic expression remains limited to a restricted area due to the lack of a true cultural policy.
Octavio Podestá
1988
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.0A bed starts moving by itself, squeaking until it reaches its climax.
The Bed
2008
6.0A bed starts moving by itself, squeaking until it reaches its climax.
The Bed
2008
NRTwo humans and a dog try to find shelter during a storm, but nobody is paying attention to them.
We Want to be Alive
2005
NRTwo humans and a dog try to find shelter during a storm, but nobody is paying attention to them.
We Want to be Alive
2005
NRTwo kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.
I Want
2000
NRTwo kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.
I Want
2000
6.2Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures. When Captain Bullock decides to abandon him on an uninhabited island, he discovers a new outlook on the world and learns to survive alone, becoming the real Robinson Crusoe.
Seven Seas Pirates
2012
6.2Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures. When Captain Bullock decides to abandon him on an uninhabited island, he discovers a new outlook on the world and learns to survive alone, becoming the real Robinson Crusoe.
Seven Seas Pirates
2012
9.0A record of the works and reflections of this notable Uruguayan sculptor as a starting point to question the fate of art in our society, a question of how this artistic expression remains limited to a restricted area due to the lack of a true cultural policy.
Octavio Podestá
1988
9.0A record of the works and reflections of this notable Uruguayan sculptor as a starting point to question the fate of art in our society, a question of how this artistic expression remains limited to a restricted area due to the lack of a true cultural policy.
Octavio Podestá
1988
NRA poor woman is abandoned by her partner after she gets pregnant, and she is determined to give the kid a better life.
I am
2002
NRA poor woman is abandoned by her partner after she gets pregnant, and she is determined to give the kid a better life.
I am
2002
NRA seemingly innocent construction site behind a school hides a terrible secret.
Cerca/Lejos
2004
6.7The governor of a small Caribbean island is about to be visited by his European nephews, so he decides to treat them with the celebration a traditional Christmas day. This includes eating turkey for dinner, decorating the Christmas tree, and watching the snow fall. His subjects are willing to fullfil this task in order to improve the distribution and protection of drinking water that comes from a spring.
Christmas in the Caribbean
2001
6.7The governor of a small Caribbean island is about to be visited by his European nephews, so he decides to treat them with the celebration a traditional Christmas day. This includes eating turkey for dinner, decorating the Christmas tree, and watching the snow fall. His subjects are willing to fullfil this task in order to improve the distribution and protection of drinking water that comes from a spring.
Christmas in the Caribbean
2001
10.0In a post-apocalyptic world, a humanoid robot creates a dog out of spare parts.
Junk
2015
10.0In a post-apocalyptic world, a humanoid robot creates a dog out of spare parts.
Junk
2015
10.0In a post-apocalyptic world, a humanoid robot creates a dog out of spare parts.
Junk
2015
Documentary in homage to Don Augusto Ascuez, who rescues from oblivion unregistered and nearly lost themes of Afro-Peruvian folklore.
Don Augusto
1984
7.0A short story about human creativity blocked by the destruction and death that wars bring with them, and how art pieces go beyond the life of their creators.
In Spite of Everything
2003
7.0A short story about human creativity blocked by the destruction and death that wars bring with them, and how art pieces go beyond the life of their creators.
In Spite of Everything
2003
7.0A short story about human creativity blocked by the destruction and death that wars bring with them, and how art pieces go beyond the life of their creators.
In Spite of Everything
2003
NRA group of kids start their own band after being inspired by the adults.
We Want to be Heard
2006
10.0The indigenous inhabitants of a Caribbean island are happy living a quiet life in harmony with nature, but their governor wants to be remembered, so he orders everyone to help him be the first man to reach the moon.
The Chief and the Carpenter
2000
NRA couple of kids start to beat up a ragged doll because it's not doing what it's told.
I Want to be Cared For
2003
NRA couple of kids start to beat up a ragged doll because it's not doing what it's told.
I Want to be Cared For
2003
NRA group of kids create a robot out of spare parts.
I Want to Play
2003
NRA group of kids create a robot out of spare parts.
I Want to Play
2003
NRA man tries to connect with his neighbours to no avail.
I want to participate
2002
NRA man tries to connect with his neighbours to no avail.
I want to participate
2002
8.0A boy and a dog try to survive in the middle of a battlefield.
Cease Game
2017
8.0A boy and a dog try to survive in the middle of a battlefield.
Cease Game
2017
NRThe younger members of a big happy family reflect on how lucky they are.
My Family
2002
NRThe younger members of a big happy family reflect on how lucky they are.
My Family
2002
NRA girl sees other kids running with backbacks on their backs, leaving behind numbers and letters, and she decides to follow them.
Yo quiero aprender
2004
NRAudiovisual on three screens that commemorates a triple anniversary: 70 years of the Association of Medical Students, 65 of the Uruguayan Medical Union and 50 of its Assistance Center.
La gesta de una conciencia
1985
NRBased on Andean legends, it's about the fights between the condor and fox that put nature in danger.
El Cóndor y el Zorro
1979
8.7A father tries to make his little daughter understand the reason for his political imprisonment. The jungle serves as an allegory of society and the hunter as its danger.
In the Jungle There Is Much to Do
1972
NRA kid plays a football game on his computer, while a group of kids play football in real life through the window.
Vamos a encontrarnos
2011
NRA man lives life intensely through his television set, turning his back on reality.
Our Little Paradise
1983
