Santiago Amigorena

Santiago Amigorena (born 15 February 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine screenwriter, film producer, film director and writer.

In 2007, he was nominated at the Mar del Plata Film Festival for Best Film with A Few Days in September.

Family and personal life
In 2003, he married actress Julie Gayet, but they divorced in 2006.

Literary work

 * Une enfance laconique (1998), P.O.L (ISBN 2-86744-619-8)
 * Une jeunesse aphone : les premiers arrangements (2000), P.O.L (ISBN 2-86744-767-4)
 * Une adolescence taciturne : le second exil (2002), P.O.L (ISBN 2-86744-868-9)
 * Le Premier Amour (2004), P.O.L (ISBN 2-84682-027-9)
 * 1978 (2009), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-84682-308-1)
 * La Première Défaite (2012), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2818016640)
 * Des jours que je n'ai pas oubliés (2014), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-8180-2002-9)
 * Mes derniers mots (2015), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-8180-3566-5)
 * Les Premières Fois (2016), P.O.L (ISBN 978-28180-4042-3)
 * Le Ghetto intérieur (2019), P.O.L (ISBN 978-28180-4782-8)
 * Winner of the "Prix des libraires de Nancy" - Le Point, 201911
 * Folio Booksellers' Prize, 2021
 * Selected for the Prix Goncourt, Prix Renaudot, Prix Médicis 2019
 * Il y a un seul amour (2020), Stock (ISBN 978-27578-8739-4)
 * Le Premier Exil (2021), P.O.L (ISBN 978-2-8180-5359-1)
 * Selected for the Prix Médicis, 2021

Filmography

 * As director and screenwriter
 * A few days in September (2006)
 * Another Silence (2011)
 * Les enfants rouges (2014)


 * As a screenwriter
 * La Jalousie, by Christophe Loizillon (1989)
 * Jean Galmot, adventurer, by Alain Maline (1990)
 * Maigret et la maison du juge (TV movie), by Bertrand Van Effenterre (1992)
 * Les gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel, by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (1993)
 * Maigret et les caves du Majestic (TV movie), by Claude Goretta (1993)
 * Le Fils du requin, by Agnès Merlet (1993)
 * Le Péril jeune, by Cédric Klapisch (1994)
 * Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer, by Raymond Rajaonarivelo (1996)
 * Kini and Adams, by Idrissa Ouedraogo (1997)
 * Le Silence de Rak, by Christophe Loizillon (1997)
 * After sex, by Brigitte Roüan (1997)
 * La voie est libre, by Stéphane Clavier (1998)
 * Tokyo Eyes, by Jean-Pierre Limosin (1998)
 * La révolution sexuelle n'a pas eu lieu, by Judith Cahen (1999)
 * Rien à faire, by Marion Vernoux (1999)
 * Peut-être, by Cédric Klapisch (1999)
 * Regarde-moi (en face), by Marco Nicoletti (2000)
 * Bon plan, by Jérôme Lévy (2000)
 * Tu ne marcheas jamais seul, by Gilles Chevallier (2001)
 * Ma caméra et moi, by Christophe Loizillon (2002)
 * The Wolf of the West Coast, by Hugo Santiago (2002)
 * Not for, or Against, by Cédric Klapisch (2002)
 * Upside Down, by Juan Diego Solanas (2012)
 * Ce qui nous lie, by Cédric Klapisch (2017)
 * Si tu voyais son coeur, by Joan Chemla (2017)
 * Someone, Somewhere, by Cédric Klapisch (2019)
 * Gloomy Eyes by Fernando Maldonado & Jorge Tereso (2019)
 * Last Words by Jonathan Nossiter based on Santiago Amigorena's book "Mes derniers mots" (2020)
 * Rise by Cédric Klapisch (2022)