Charades has acquired international sales rights to Diego Céspedes’ debut feature “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” ahead of its world premiere at Cannes’s Un Certain Regard.
Set in the early 1980′, in the Chilean desert, the film tells the story of 11 year-old Lidia who “grows up in a loving queer family pushed on the edge of an unwelcoming dusty mining town. They are blamed for a mysterious illness that’s starting to spread – said to be passed through a single gaze, when one man falls in love with another. In this modern western, Lidia leads a quest for vengeance, facing violence, fear and hatred, where family is her only refuge and love might be the real danger,” the synopsis reads.
Cespedes said, “This isn’t a story about heroes. I simply want to reclaim those who were pushed aside and forgotten. And also laugh a little.”
A rising Chilean filmmaker,...
Set in the early 1980′, in the Chilean desert, the film tells the story of 11 year-old Lidia who “grows up in a loving queer family pushed on the edge of an unwelcoming dusty mining town. They are blamed for a mysterious illness that’s starting to spread – said to be passed through a single gaze, when one man falls in love with another. In this modern western, Lidia leads a quest for vengeance, facing violence, fear and hatred, where family is her only refuge and love might be the real danger,” the synopsis reads.
Cespedes said, “This isn’t a story about heroes. I simply want to reclaim those who were pushed aside and forgotten. And also laugh a little.”
A rising Chilean filmmaker,...
- 4/10/2025
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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