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

Guatemala City Guatemala City (, also known colloquially by the nickname Guate), is the Capital city, national capital and largest city of the Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala. It is also the Municipalities of Guatemala, municipal capital of the Guatemala Depa ...

, Díaz moved to Belgium in 1998 as a student at the Free University of Brussels. In 2011, after developing an interest in filmmaking, he attended

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film school in Paris where he studied in the school's Atelier Scénario, a year-long screenwriting workshop. 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

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, where Díaz won the

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. ''Our Mothers'' received the

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given by the

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(UCC) and was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the

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. It received six nominations at the

10th Magritte Awards The 10th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2019 in Belgium. It took place on 1 February 2020, at the Square, in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels. During the ceremony, the Ac ...

, including

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and

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for Díaz, winning Best First Feature Film. At 2023

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Forum, his upcoming project ''The Invisible Ink'' won a €50,000 grant development grant. The eight-part episodic is produced by Fernando Epstein.

Filmography

* ''Pourquoi les hommes brûlent-ils?'' (2010) * ''Territorio liberado'' (2014) * '' Our Mothers'' (2019) * ''

Mexico 86 ''Mexico 86'' is a 2024 drama film directed by César Díaz, and starring Bérénice Béjo as a Guatemalan rebel activist reunited with her son ten years after leaving the country. Premise Amidst the backdrop of the Guatemalan Civil War, de ...

'' (TBA) - Post-production

References

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* 1978 births Living people Belgian film directors 21st-century Belgian screenwriters Belgian editors Guatemalan film directors Université libre de Bruxelles alumni Guatemalan screenwriters Male screenwriters Belgian male screenwriters {{Belgium-film-director-stub