Diego Céspedes’ The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24).
The Chilean drama centres around an unknown illness said to be transmitted through a man’s loving gaze. Chile’s Quijote Films and France’s Les Valseurs produce, with Charades handling sales.
The jury prize went to Simon Mesa Soto’s A Poet. Shot in Medellin, Colombia, it follows an ageing man obsessed with poetry who mentors a talented teenage girl.
Best screenplay went to Harry Lighton for Pillion, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård.
The best director prize was awarded to Palestinian filmmakers Tarzan and Arab Nasser for Once Upon A Time in Gaza.
The best performance prizes went to Cléo Diara for Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest In The Storm, and Frank Dillane for Harris Dickinson’s feature directing debut directed Urchin.
The jury was presided over by UK filmmaker Molly Manning Walker and also included French-Swiss director and screenwriter Louise Courvoisier and Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini.
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