César Díaz

Directing

César Díaz

Born
(age 48)
Birthplace
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Credits
13 titles

Biography

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.

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 2

YearTitleRole
2023 I Love You, and It Hurts TV (13 ep)
2023 Prank or Tank TV Self (6 ep)

Crew credits 11

YearTitleJob
TBA Fidelidad Film Director
2026 Nosotros Film Editor
2025 Mexico 86 Film Director, Screenplay
2021 1991 Film Screenplay
2020 Chaco Film Editor, Writer
2019 Our Mothers Film Writer, Director
2019 When They Left Film Editor
2019 Tremors Film Editor
2017 At Home Film Editor, Producer, Production Director
2015 Ixcanul Film Editor
2010 Pourquoi les hommes brûlent-ils? Film Director, Writer
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