Is love dangerous or will it save a day? Chilean writer director Diego Céspedes explores the issue and the theme of family and community as a refuge for his feature debut The mysterious gaze of the flamingothe world premiered in a specific aspect of Cannes on Thursday.

It tells the story of 11-year-old Lidia: “He grew up on the edge of a loving queer family that would be unwelcome dusty town,” a summary says. "They were blamed for a mysterious disease, a mysterious disease that began to spread - it was said that when one fell in love with another, they passed by a stare."

Check out the exclusive clip of this film, produced by Quijote Films in Les Valseurs in Chile and France, and is handled here by Charads.

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The modern West, starring Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán and Paula Dinamarca, may have lived in the Chilean desert in the 1980s, just before the 29-year-old was born. But the queer director knows the challenges his character faces, including violence, fear and hatred from his family’s experiences.

"My family is from the outskirts of Santiago, the capital of Chile, and they rented this small salon salon and hired gay people to cut their hair. At that time, it was just gay people to cut their hair." thr. "My mother is very close to them and everyone died of AIDS. I remember my mother didn't have much information. We just heard that it was a very dangerous thing and it was easy to spread. It was horrible."

This is part of the background of Céspedes' creation of his story. “I’m also inspired by real people, how they build communities and families when dissidents and trans people are abandoned by society,” he explained. “This is special for me and the core of the movie, and it’s the creation of a real family that doesn’t share blood.”

Looking for Lidia for a year's audition before the creative team won the grand prize with Cortés. "It was the first time she was centered around trans women and such a diverse group," the director recalls. "But when we put them together, she was very comfortable and very natural. She had a mix of adult attitude and this humor."

The idea that gaze can spread AIDS is not anyone who advises. "It's a total creation, but in real life, I hear something very similar," he said. "At the time, even now. When you can't access information, explanations are created because our humans need explanations for everything."

In this sense The mysterious gaze of the flamingo It is to face reality and other people's pleas. In fact, the need to open up meeting unique people is the core information that Céspedes feels very timely. “We grew up in a generation, people are to who are the bad guys and who are the good guys, but I think we missed that conversation and looked at each other.”

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Are filmmakers optimistic that even in a divided world, humans can make real connections? He told thr. "As humans, we can talk, and when we look at each other in our eyes, we can find consensus. We need to talk more."