---
name: "Lila Avilés"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lila-aviles"
fi1m_id: "lila-aviles"
imdb_id: "nm3569165"
tmdb_id: 2112566
wikidata_id: "Q76352744"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "1 January 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-30T22:14:50.676587+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lila Avilés

## Identity

Lila Avilés

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lila-aviles
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lila-aviles
- **IMDb ID:** nm3569165
- **TMDB ID:** 2112566
- **Wikidata ID:** Q76352744
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76352744, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3569165/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2112566

Producer and director. Born 1 January 1982 in Mexico City, Mexico.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1982, Mexico City, Mexico
- **Also known as:** Lila Avilés Solís
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76352744, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3569165/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2112566

## Biography

Lila Avilés is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. She studied performing arts, stage direction and film scriptwriting, and worked as an actress in television series before making her directorial debut with the short film Déjà vu in 2016.

Her first feature, *The Chambermaid* (*La camarista*, 2019), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was selected as Mexico’s entry for the Academy Awards and Goya Awards. It won the Ariel Award for Best First Feature. Her second feature, *Tótem* (2023), which she also wrote, premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Ecumenical Prize, and was chosen to represent Mexico at the Academy Awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tótem* (2023), Fi1m 85, Director, Writer, Casting, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/totem.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Músicas* (2025), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
- *Tótem* (2023), Director, Writer, Casting, Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/totem.md)
- *Eye Two Times Mouth* (2023), Director, Writer
- *The Chambermaid* (2019), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Nena* (2017), Director of Photography, Editor, Director, Writer
- *Bonitas* (2017), Director
- *Land of Nod* (2016), Actor
- *Drunk History El Lado Borroso De La Historia* (2016), series, Actor
- *Déjà Vu* (2016), Writer, Director, Editor, Producer
- *La fertilidad de la tierra* (2016), Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Director
- *Reconstrucción* (2016), Director
- *She's Ramona* (2015), as Sofía
- *Limerencia* (2015), Director
- *Alice in Marialand* (2014), as Woman at the Bar
- *The Time Remaining* (2014), Actor
- *Pacientes* (2012), series, Actor
- *Suda* (2012), Actor
- *Caminando las noches* (2012), as Ema
- *Drenaje Profundo* (2010), series, Actor
- *Prófugas del Destino* (2010), series, Actor
- *El Pantera* (2007), series, Actor
- *Cábula*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Lila Avilés](https://film.one/media/person/4129160/gallery-089d0dfc3157.jpg) Lila Avilés — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62622_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62622_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129160/gallery-13e7ab3510e3.jpg) Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62540_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62540_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129160/gallery-52e71555b521.jpg) Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62675_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62675_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Lila Avilés and actress Naíma Sentíes at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129160/gallery-905f5861c6fd.jpg) Director Lila Avilés and actress Naíma Sentíes at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-63137.jpg/1280px-Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-63137.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129160/gallery-1c763ce53925.jpg) Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62777.jpg/1280px-Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62777.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/4129160/gallery-51f682304f53.jpg) Director Lila Avilés at the premiere of the film "Totem" at the Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62646.jpg/1280px-Lila_Avil%C3%A9s_-62646.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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