César Paes (born 1959), is a Brazilian French filmmaker.
[1] He has directed several critically acclaimed feature documentaries including: Angano... Angano..., Mahaleo and L'opéra du bout du monde.
[2] César Paes was born in 1955 in Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
With his wife Marie, he directed documentaries such as Angano...Angano... Tales from Madagascar, To the warriors of silence, Saudade do Futuro and Songs for Madagascar won several top awards at Cinéma du Réel, Festival dei Popoli and Dok Leipzig.
In 2012, he co-directed the documentary L'Opéra du bout du monde which is the story of the creation of a contemporary opera from Reunion Island recounting the arrival of Louis XIV's officers in the islands of the Indian Ocean.