Wicked Queer 42

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

La misteriosa mirada del flamenco

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Fri, Apr 10 @ 6:00 pm

Brattle Theater

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Director

Diego Céspedes

Year

2025

Run Time

109

min

Country

France, Chile, Germany, Spain, Belgium

Language

Spanish

PROGRAM Time

minutes

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Set in a remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness—rumored to spread through the gaze between men—sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes the target of suspicion and violence. Through Lidia’s eyes, Céspedes crafts a haunting allegory of love, myth, and prejudice that reimagines the early AIDS era as a queer western with poetic intimacy and desert-dry surrealism.

This film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.

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