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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Biography from TMDB.
- September 20, 1978 (48)
- Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Editor, writer, director and producer
- 8 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
What are Cesar Diaz's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Power.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 7
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 7
Grounded 5 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 3
Steady 5 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 7 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 6
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Cesar Diaz's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Cesar Diaz's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Nosotros(2026)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Mexico 86 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
I Love You, and It Hurts(2023)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all shows
1991(2021)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Cadejo Blanco(2021)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Chaco (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Our Mothers(2019)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
When They Left (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Tremors(2019)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Diciembres(2018)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)At Home (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Ixcanul(2015)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Pourquoi les hommes brûlent-ils? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Fidelidad (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 12 titles, 11 of them dated from 2010 to 2026.
How do Cesar Diaz's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 59th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 66th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the pacing 50/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 58, detractors 36. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Cesar Diaz work with?
People who share at least 2 of Cesar Diaz's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Jayro Bustamante shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Jayro BustamanteShared titles: 1991 (2021), Tremors (2019), Ixcanul (2015)See all 3 shared titles with Jayro Bustamante
Actors
- Brandon LópezShared titles: 1991 (2021), Cadejo Blanco (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Brandon López
- Juan Pablo OlyslagerShared titles: Cadejo Blanco (2021), Tremors (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Juan Pablo Olyslager
- Karen MartínezShared titles: Cadejo Blanco (2021), Our Mothers (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Karen Martínez
Composers and cinematographers
- Luis Armando ArteagaShared titles: Tremors (2019), Ixcanul (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Luis Armando Arteaga
- Pascual ReyesShared titles: Tremors (2019), Ixcanul (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Pascual Reyes
Producers
- Joaquín RuanoShared titles: Nosotros (2026), 1991 (2021), Our Mothers (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Joaquín Ruano
- Pamela GuineaShared titles: Nosotros (2026), Cadejo Blanco (2021), Our Mothers (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Pamela Guinea
- Mauricio EscobarShared titles: Cadejo Blanco (2021), Tremors (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Mauricio Escobar
- Edgard TenembaumShared titles: Tremors (2019), Ixcanul (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Edgard Tenembaum