
Directing
Facundo Balza
Born
2005-12-31 (20)
Place of birth
Montevideo, Uruguay
Known for
Directing
Credits
7 titles
He is a Uruguayan film director and producer born in 2005. His first university short film as writer and director, Espírita (2025), was selected for the 2024 Fantastic Workshop, organized by ACAU and BIFFF, and presented at Ventana Sur and the BIF Market in Brussels. Since then, he has focused his work on production through the fiction short S22 and the documentary short Las películas de mi pueblo. Tabula Rasa is his latest project as writer and director, and his most personal work to date. With this film, he revisits the discomforts and fractures that shape his perspective, taking his thematic exploration into more radical and exposed territory.
Known for
A young man subjected to a brutal conversion therapy is tormented by fragments of his fading memories as the treatment intensifies.
Tabula Rasa
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NRGero and Cris, two young filmmakers, have the opportunity to pitch their idea to an important producer. But minutes before, Gero receives a call from work demanding that he return immediately, forcing him to choose between securing his present or risking it all for his future.
S22
2026
NRDuring the military dictatorship, Mariana and her husband turn to the spiritualist Joaquín hoping he can help them uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance.
Espírita
2024
NRGuichón, Paysandú, Uruguay. After more than 18 released feature films, 80-year-old amateur filmmaker Edgardo Artigas shoots his final film alongside his neighbors and friends.
My hometown movies
2026
Behind the camera
A young man subjected to a brutal conversion therapy is tormented by fragments of his fading memories as the treatment intensifies.
Tabula Rasa
—
A young man subjected to a brutal conversion therapy is tormented by fragments of his fading memories as the treatment intensifies.
Tabula Rasa
—
NRGero and Cris, two young filmmakers, have the opportunity to pitch their idea to an important producer. But minutes before, Gero receives a call from work demanding that he return immediately, forcing him to choose between securing his present or risking it all for his future.
S22
2026
NRDuring the military dictatorship, Mariana and her husband turn to the spiritualist Joaquín hoping he can help them uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance.
Espírita
2024
NRDuring the military dictatorship, Mariana and her husband turn to the spiritualist Joaquín hoping he can help them uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance.
Espírita
2024
NRDuring the military dictatorship, Mariana and her husband turn to the spiritualist Joaquín hoping he can help them uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance.
Espírita
2024
NRGuichón, Paysandú, Uruguay. After more than 18 released feature films, 80-year-old amateur filmmaker Edgardo Artigas shoots his final film alongside his neighbors and friends.
My hometown movies
2026
