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2025

LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO

Diego Céspedes

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104 minutes

Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium

2025

Part of Havana Star Prize Fiction Competition

Monday, May 4, 2026 at 12:45:00 AM UTC

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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

  • Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard

THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO

In the early 1980s, in the Chilean desert, eleven-year-old Lidia grows up in a loving queer family living on the fringes of a hostile mining town. When a mysterious illness begins to spread—rumored to be transmitted through a single gaze when one man falls in love with another—the community turns against them, fueling fear, superstition, and violence. In this modern western, Lidia embarks on a journey marked by loss, resilience, and defiance, confronting a world shaped by prejudice and exclusion. As danger closes in, family becomes her only refuge—and love, perhaps, the greatest threat of all.

LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO

A principios de la década de 1980, en el desierto chileno, Lidia, de once años, crece en el seno de una amorosa familia queer que vive al margen de un hostil pueblo minero. Cuando comienza a propagarse una misteriosa enfermedad —de la que se rumorea que se transmite a través de una sola mirada, cuando un hombre se enamora de otro—, la comunidad se vuelve en su contra, alimentando el miedo, la superstición y la violencia. En este western moderno, Lidia emprende un viaje marcado por la pérdida, la resiliencia y la rebeldía, enfrentándose a un mundo moldeado por el prejuicio y la exclusión. A medida que el peligro se cierne sobre ella, la familia se convierte en su único refugio y el amor, tal vez, en la mayor amenaza de todas.

About the Director

Diego Céspedes

Diego Céspedes

Diego Céspedes is a Chilean filmmaker, University of Chile alumni. His debut short, The Summer of the Electric Lion (2018), won the Cinéfondation First Prize at Cannes and the Nest Prize at San Sebastián, and was selected at major festivals including Sundance and AFI Fest. He later returned to Cannes with The Melting Creatures (2022), which premiered at the Semaine de la Critique, and is now preparing the premiere of his first feature, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025), selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Diego Céspedes es un cineasta chileno, egresado de la Universidad de Chile. Su cortometraje debut, The Summer of the Electric Lion (2018), ganó el Primer Premio de la Cinéfondation en Cannes y el Premio Nest en San Sebastián, y fue seleccionado en importantes festivales, incluidos Sundance y el AFI Fest. Posteriormente regresó a Cannes con Las criaturas que se derriten* (2022), que se estrenó en la Semaine de la Critique, y ahora prepara el estreno de su primer largometraje, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025), seleccionado para la sección Un Certain Regard en Cannes.
Diego Céspedes

Diego Céspedes

Diego Céspedes

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