Country: Chile
Year: 2025
Duration: 104
In the early ’80s, in the Chilean desert, eleven-year-old Lidia grows up in a loving queer family on the edge of an unwelcoming dusty mining town. They are blamed for a mysterious illness said to spread through a single gaze, when one man falls in love with another. In this modern western, Lidia embarks on a quest for vengeance, confronting violence, fear, and hatred, where family is her only refuge and love might be the real danger. The film participated at TorinoFilmLab. Winner of the TFL Co-Production Award 2020.
Biography
film director
Diego Céspedes
(Santiago, Chile, 1995) studied Film & Television at Universidad de Chile. In 2018, he wrote and directed his first short, The Summer of the Electric Lion, which won the Cinéfondation First Prize at Cannes Film Festival and the Nest First Prize at San Sebastian Film Festival. In 2025, he directed The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, which was awarded in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
El verano del léon eléctrico (cm, 2018), Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol (cm, 2022), La misteriosa mirada del flamenco (2025).
Declaration
film director
“If there’s anything at all running through the film, it’s the fact that it talks about two types of love: teenage love, and that of mothers and grandmothers, family love... The main character is exploring these different types of love.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Diego Céspedes. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Angello Faccini. FILM EDITING: Martial Salomon. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Bernardita Baeza. COSTUME DESIGN: Pau Aulí. MUSIC: Florencia Di Concilio. SOUND: David Ferral. CAST: Matías Catalán, Luis Dubó, Paula Dinamarca, Tamara Cortes, Claudia Cabezas. PRODUCTION: Damien Megherbi, Giancarlo Nasi, Justin Pechberty per Les Valseurs, Quijote Films, Weydemann Bros.
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