Directing
Nicolás Echevarría
Born 1947-08-08 · Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Nicolás Echevarría is a Mexican film director and screenwriter renowned for his documentaries and feature films that explore Mexican culture and indigenous traditions. His notable works include Cabeza de Vaca (1991), which depicts the journey of Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and Eco de la Montaña (2014), a documentary about Huichol artist Santos de la Torre. Echevarría's films are celebrated for their ethnographic depth and visual storytelling, contributing significantly to Mexican cinema.
Acting credits
NRIt's a life told in four seasons. It is the orbit of a man who comes close to and steps back from the light, experiencing weather transformations in the garden of the soul. A documentary about the meticulous construction of Japanese tea houses in the Mexican Ajusco, as an excuse to discover a mind that at first glance might seem obsessive and eccentric.
Sunka Raku (Alegría Evanescente)
2015
Santiago is a young man who unexpectedly has an accident that leaves him in a wheelchair. Losing his "friends", his girlfriend and getting bullied at school. When all seems lost, he meets Mateo, a new exchange student, who is gay and defends him from bullying. Their friendship over time turns into something more, giving Santiago's life a new meaning and the courage to defend his love against the stigmas of religion, sexual orientation and physical disability.
Quiero caminar contigo
2014
Behind the camera
7.2Echo of the Mountain takes a look at the life and work of Santos de la Torre, a great Huichol artist who, like his people, lives in oblivion. Despite having made a great mural for the metro station Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre, Santos lives isolated and ignored in his country. This documentary follows his pilgrimage to Wirikuta, where he asks gods for permission to make a new mural; his journey across 385 miles of the Peyote Route, and Santos's creative process during the making of a new mural which aims to illustrate the history, mythology and religious traditions of the Huichol people.
Echo of the Mountain
2015
7.2Echo of the Mountain takes a look at the life and work of Santos de la Torre, a great Huichol artist who, like his people, lives in oblivion. Despite having made a great mural for the metro station Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre, Santos lives isolated and ignored in his country. This documentary follows his pilgrimage to Wirikuta, where he asks gods for permission to make a new mural; his journey across 385 miles of the Peyote Route, and Santos's creative process during the making of a new mural which aims to illustrate the history, mythology and religious traditions of the Huichol people.
Echo of the Mountain
2015
6.8In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Cabeza de Vaca
1991
6.8In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.
Cabeza de Vaca
1991
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Peasant Poets
1979
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Peasant Poets
1979
5.7A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.
Life Kills
2002
5.7A romantic comedy of our times about passion, friendship and lies, on one of those days when the city and its inhabitants go crazy and anything seems possible. Diego and Silvia meet each other and fall in love thanks to their masterly lies. The morning after, with their respective friends, they remember the encounter and slowly begin to realize how sincere and honest that relationship was. When the opportunity arises, both struggle to meet again on a day in which a sudden and unusual disorder reigns in Mexico City.
Life Kills
2002
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Enemies
1996
Tzintzuntzan is the name of a town in Michoacán, Mexico. At Easter, so-called "spies" roam the streets on horseback, tirelessly searching for Jesus, house by house. Their intention is to arrest, condemn, torture and sacrifice him. This ancient tradition culminates in a Good Friday procession in which all the images of Christ are carried.
Tzintzuntzan
2024
People from throughout Mexico and the southern United States used to gather at the hacienda El Espinazo to meet with this healer. Was he a charlatan, or a prophet who in many ways surpassed the procedures of modern medicine?
El niño Fidencio, el taumaturgo de Espinazo
1982
People from throughout Mexico and the southern United States used to gather at the hacienda El Espinazo to meet with this healer. Was he a charlatan, or a prophet who in many ways surpassed the procedures of modern medicine?
El niño Fidencio, el taumaturgo de Espinazo
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Judea
1974
Mexican documentary.
Hikure-tame
1977
5.0Mexican feature film
De la calle
1988
5.7Drama written by Octavio Paz.
Sor Juana Inez de la cruz
1988
Documentary that talks about the events that occurred on October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where thousands of students were killed during a rally.
The 68 Memorial
2008
Documentary that talks about the events that occurred on October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, where thousands of students were killed during a rally.
The 68 Memorial
2008
6.6Documentary portrait of a religious healer, and her shamanic mushroom-cult belief system.
Maria Sabina, Spirit Woman
1978
7.0Documentary about Tarahumara religious observances around Easter time.
Teshuinada, semana santa Tarahumara
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Flor y canto
1981
