The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

Overview

Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes' debut follows young Lidia growing up in a queer household of drag performers and trans women. When a rumored illness spreads fear, suspicion and violence run rampant. Chile's official Oscar entry and the winner of Cannes Un Certain Regard prize, the film reimagines the AIDS era as a poetic queer western shaped by myth and tenderness

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