César Díaz

Known for

Directing

Born

September 20, 1978 (age 48)

Birthplace

Guatemala City, Guatemala

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 e...