The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
Diego Céspedes
2025
In the 80s Chilean desert, 11-year-old Lidia grows up in a queer family blamed for a mysterious illness. As fear spreads, she embarks on a quest for vengeance in a hostile town, where love is feared and family is her only refuge.
Diego Céspedes is a Chilean filmmaker. He studied Film and Television at the University of Chile. In 2018, he wrote and directed his first short film, THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION, which won the Cinéfondation First Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Nest Prize at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. In 2022, he returned to Cannes with THE MELTING CREATURES, his second fiction short film, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival's Semaine de la Critique.
The Melting Creatures (2022); The Summer of the Electric Lion (2018)
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