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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Horizons / La misteriosa mirada del flamenco / Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium 2025

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Screenings

Friday 4/7 / 16:00
Kaiserbad
1S3
Saturday 5/7 / 19:00
Lazne III
2L6
Monday 7/7 / 19:30
Husovka Theatre
4H4
Wednesday 9/7 / 09:00
Cas Cinema
6C1

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Lidia is growing up in a loving community of trans women in a mining town in northern Chile. It is 1982, and a mysterious and deadly illness is ravaging the area. Many are convinced that it is spread by the gaze of two men who fall in love with each other. Despite hostile rumors and attitudes, Lidia is not afraid to confront others, especially when the situation spirals out of control. Diego Céspedes’s directorial debut won the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. A story about queer life at a time that was less open to otherness than today, it is a modern western about fighting prejudice, surviving in a hostile environment, and the complexity of love – which can be a refuge for one but a source of danger for another.

Sandra Hezinová

About the film

110 min / Color, DCP

Director Diego Céspedes / Screenplay Diego Céspedes / Dir. of Photography Angello Faccini Rueda / Music Florencia Di Concilio / Editor Martial Salomon / Producer Giancarlo Nasi / Production Don Quijote Films / Coproduction Les Valseurs, Weydemann Bros. Film, Irusoin, Wrong Men / Cast Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca, Claudia Cabezas, Luis Dubó / Sales Charades

About the director

Diego Céspedes

Diego Céspedes. Filmography: The Summer of the Electric Lion (El verano del léon eléctrico, 2018, short), The Melting Creatures (Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol, 2022, short), The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco, 2025).

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Charades
38 Boulevard Raspail, 75007, Paris
France
Phone: +33 629 874 504
E-mail: [email protected]

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