César Díaz
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.
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Movies (14)

Nosotros
2026 · Editor

Mexico 86
2025 · Director, Screenplay

Cadejo Blanco
2023 · Editor

Roza
2022 · Editor

1991
2021 · Screenplay

Chaco
2020 · Editor, Writer

Our Mothers
2019 · Writer, Director

When They Left
2019 · Editor

Tremors
2019 · Editor
At Home
2017 · Editor, Producer, Production Director

Ixcanul
2015 · Editor

Dariela Los Martes
2014 · Director of Photography

Pourquoi les hommes brûlent-ils?
2010 · Director, Writer
Fidelidad
· Director


