Carlos Reygadas Masterclass

Carlos Reygadas Masterclass

Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican film director, writer and producer. He is a lawyer (Escuela Libre de Derecho) with a master’s degree in International Humanitarian Law (King’s College London). For a brief period he was a member of the Mexican Foreign Service. Together with Mantarraya Productions, he has created the film distributor ND-Mantarraya and the Escuela Superior de Cine. He also participates in the post-production studios, Splendor Omnia.

At the end of the 1990s he made four short films in Belgium, and in 2002 he finished his first feature film, Japón, which premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, where it received a special mention from the Camera d’Or. In 2005, his second film, Battle in Heaven, premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. At the same festival, in 2007, he was awarded the Jury Prize for Silent Light and in 2012 the Best Director for Post Tenebras Lux. In 2018, Our Time premiered in the Venice competition. He is presently preparing Wake of Umbra.

In 2022 he published Presence (AnDante), a meditative essay that contests the concept of cinema as representation. During these years he has co-produced films by other directors, including recently, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Natalia López, Paz Encina and Hilal Baydarov.