Lorenzo Vigas

Directing

Lorenzo Vigas

Born

1967-01-01 (59)

Place of birth

Mérida, Venezuela

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Lorenzo Vigas Castes (born 1967) is a Venezuelan director, screenwriter and film producer. With his first feature film From Afar, Vigas won the Golden Lion for best film of the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival.

Known for

From Afar poster
6.1

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

From Afar

2015

April's Daughters poster
5.9

Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to her daughters, but we soon understand why Valeria had wanted her to stay away.

April's Daughters

2017

The Box poster
6.3

A young boy on a mission to collect what he believes to be his father’s remains gets sucked into the underbelly of the migrant industry in Mexico.

The Box

2021

Elephants Never Forget poster
7.2

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

Elephants Never Forget

2004

The Orchid Seller poster
5.5

Oswaldo Vigas, a renowned Venezuelan painter, returns, in his 80s, to the town where he was raised, searching for a painting that was lost during his teenage years. If he finds it, he and his wife, Jeannine, will be able to complete an exhibition about the early stages of his career. This search becomes more than an opportunity to revisit the early influences on his art. During this exploration, he is confronted with a chapter of his youth that marked him for the rest of his life, and defined him as a human being and as a creator. The search for the lost painting, EL VENDEDOR DE ORQUÍDEAS (THE ORCHID SELLER), allows us to discover the human side of one of the most influential artists of Latin America.

The Orchid Seller

2016

Behind the camera

From Afar poster
6.1

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

From Afar

2015

From Afar poster
6.1

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

From Afar

2015

From Afar poster
6.1

Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.

From Afar

2015

April's Daughters poster
5.9

Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to her daughters, but we soon understand why Valeria had wanted her to stay away.

April's Daughters

2017

The Box poster
6.3

A young boy on a mission to collect what he believes to be his father’s remains gets sucked into the underbelly of the migrant industry in Mexico.

The Box

2021

The Box poster
6.3

A young boy on a mission to collect what he believes to be his father’s remains gets sucked into the underbelly of the migrant industry in Mexico.

The Box

2021

The Box poster
6.3

A young boy on a mission to collect what he believes to be his father’s remains gets sucked into the underbelly of the migrant industry in Mexico.

The Box

2021

Elephants Never Forget poster
7.2

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

Elephants Never Forget

2004

Elephants Never Forget poster
7.2

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

Elephants Never Forget

2004

Elephants Never Forget poster
7.2

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

Elephants Never Forget

2004

The Orchid Seller poster
5.5

Oswaldo Vigas, a renowned Venezuelan painter, returns, in his 80s, to the town where he was raised, searching for a painting that was lost during his teenage years. If he finds it, he and his wife, Jeannine, will be able to complete an exhibition about the early stages of his career. This search becomes more than an opportunity to revisit the early influences on his art. During this exploration, he is confronted with a chapter of his youth that marked him for the rest of his life, and defined him as a human being and as a creator. The search for the lost painting, EL VENDEDOR DE ORQUÍDEAS (THE ORCHID SELLER), allows us to discover the human side of one of the most influential artists of Latin America.

The Orchid Seller

2016