Inés Bortagaray

Writing

Inés Bortagaray

Born 1975-05-22 · Salto, Uruguay

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).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Invisible Life poster
7.8

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.

Invisible Life

2019

La Perra poster
NR

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.

La Perra

2026

Welcome, Violeta! poster
7.3

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.

Welcome, Violeta!

2023

My Friend from the Park poster
6.5

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.

My Friend from the Park

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

Another Story of the World poster
5.7

A small town, two families joined together over time. A man who does not forget the values ​​of honor and fraternal friendship. From the director of The Journey to the Sea, history proposes the coalition of two worlds or, perhaps, the same but with different ways of understanding it.

Another Story of the World

2017

A Stray Girlfriend poster
4.0

A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.

A Stray Girlfriend

2007

Al Borde poster
2.7

During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are about to fall: the love of a father towards his son choices, the unconditional love of a friend, the homefeeling of a neighbour who's almost part of the family. On the edge explores those extreme experiences that confront us with our prejudgments, exposing them and giving them a new meaning.

Al Borde

2016

Rabbit Woman poster
3.9

The complicated and bizarre story of Ana (Haien Qiu), a Chinese born in Argentina who is, unexpectedly, pursued by danger. She accidentally becomes involved in the affairs of the Chinese triads established in Argentina. To get rid of them she must flee to her hometown, but what is not known is that in the meadow, things have changed. The people have left and all she find are rabbits. But even the rabbits have changed; mutating into bloodthirsty carnivores.

Rabbit Woman

2013