Felipe Cazals
Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies.
Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies.
Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
Known for
Citizen Buelna
Chicogrande
The Citrillo's Turn
Digna: Worthy to Her Last Breath
Duck Season
Herod's Law
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Love Bubbles
The Wrath of a God
Three of Cups
The Humiliated
Luz's Motives
Dulce espiritu
Under the Shrapnel
The Seven Cucas
The Great Victory
Rigo is Love
The Year of the Plague
Las Poquianchis
The Heist
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Those Who Live Where the Soft Wind Blows
Those Years
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Emiliano Zapata
Familiarities
Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell
The Oscars