Lisandro Alonso

Lisandro Alonso is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.

He started out as a sound engineer assistant on the films El Bonaerense and Munda Grùa by Pablo Trapero. He then worked as an assistant director on the film by Nicolas Sarquiq, Sobre La Tierra. In 1996 he writes and directs his first short film : Dos en la vereda. In 2001, he produces La Libertad, his first film which he also writes and directs.

He has directed six feature-length films and a short film since 2001 and is loosely associated with the New Argentine Cinema movement. His film La libertad was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. His 2014 film Jauja competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His 2023 film Eureka, featuring Viggo Mortensen, screened at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival as a Special Screening. In addition, he was named Film Society of Lincoln Center 2014 Filmmaker in Residence on 24 June 2014.