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

Behind the camera

Echo of the Mountain poster
7.2

Echo 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

Echo of the Mountain poster
7.2

Echo 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

Cabeza de Vaca poster
6.8

In 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

Cabeza de Vaca poster
6.8

In 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

Peasant Poets poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Peasant Poets

1979

Peasant Poets poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Peasant Poets

1979

Life Kills poster
5.7

A 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

Life Kills poster
5.7

A 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

Enemies poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Enemies

1996

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
7.0

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 artwork available
7.0

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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Judea

1974

No artwork available
NR

Mexican documentary.

Hikure-tame

1977

De la calle poster
5.0

Mexican feature film

De la calle

1988

Sor Juana Inez de la cruz poster
5.7

Drama written by Octavio Paz.

Sor Juana Inez de la cruz

1988

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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

Maria Sabina, Spirit Woman poster
6.6

Documentary portrait of a religious healer, and her shamanic mushroom-cult belief system.

Maria Sabina, Spirit Woman

1978

Teshuinada, semana santa Tarahumara poster
7.0

Documentary about Tarahumara religious observances around Easter time.

Teshuinada, semana santa Tarahumara

1979

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Flor y canto

1981