About

Known credits:
15
Birthday:
1978-09-20
Place of birth:
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Website:
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César Díaz

Overview

César Díaz (born 20 September 1978) is a Belgian-Guatemalan film director, screenwriter and editor.

Born and raised in Guatemala City, Díaz moved to Belgium in 1998 as a student at the Free University of Brussels. After developing an interest in filmmaking, he enrolled at the La Fémis film school in Paris and studied screenwriting. Since the mid-2000s, Díaz has worked on a number of documentary films, before making his feature-length debut in 2019 with Our Mothers. The film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where Díaz won the Caméra d'Or.

Our Mothers received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC) and was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. It received six nominations at the 10th Magritte Awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Díaz, winning Best First Feature Film.

Known for

Acting
2023 I Love You, and It Hurts Actor 72
Good

Directing
2024 Mexico 86 Directing Director N/A
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2019 Our Mothers Directing Director 58
Average
Fidelidad Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2024 Mexico 86 Writing Screenplay N/A
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2021 1991 Writing Screenplay N/A
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2020 Chaco Writing Writer 60
Fair
2019 Our Mothers Writing Writer 58
Average

Production
2017 At Home Production Production Director N/A
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2017 At Home Production Producer N/A
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Editing
2020 Chaco Editing Editor 60
Fair
2019 When They Left Editing Editor N/A
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2019 Tremors Editing Editor 59
Average
2017 At Home Editing Editor N/A
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2015 Ixcanul Editing Editor 60
Fair