The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo
Singapore Premiere
Diego Cespedes Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium 2025 104 min M18 (Mature Content)
In 1982, an eleven-year-old girl in Chile comes of age with her loving queer family, who are accused of spreading a strange disease.
Lidia lives with a queer family providing entertainment at a canteen for the nearby mining town. When her family are accused of transmitting a mysterious but deadly plague with their gazes, the frightened workers ostracise them and attempt extreme measures.
The film explores the transgressions between binaries of virtue and sin, queer and normality, desires and guilt. Through sharp humour, irony and subversions, it celebrates our humanity and critiques the marginalisation of someone as an other. A metaphor for the ’80s AIDS crisis, this modern western witnesses Lidia’s perilous quest for vengeance and healing, where family is her only refuge and love might be the real danger.
Synopsis Writer: Daryl Cheong
2 Dec, Tue 9:30PM / 104 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 3
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The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo
La Misteriosa Mirada Del Flamenco
Diego Cespedes
Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium
2025
Spanish
English
104 min
M18 (Mature Content)
Singapore Premiere
Diego Cespedes
Diego Céspedes is a Chilean film director, cinematographer and editor. His first short, The Summer of the Electric Lion (2018), won the Cinéfoundation First Prize at Cannes and the Nest Prize at San Sebastián. The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, his debut feature, won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes.
Tamara Cortés,
Matías Catalán,
Paula Dinamarca
Giancarlo Nasi,
Justin Pechberty,
Damien Megherbi
