Chilean Drama The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes gained the principle Un Sure Regard Prize this night in Cannes.
Set in 1982, the movie follows eleven-year-old Lidia lives together with her beloved queer household in a desert mining city in northern Chile. As an unknown and lethal illness begins to unfold, legend has it that it’s transmitted between two males, by means of a easy look, once they fall in love. Whereas persons are accusing her household, Lidia should discover out whether or not this fantasy is actual or not.
A Poet, by Colombian filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto, gained the Jury Prize. The movie is Soto’s second characteristic, and it follows Oscar Restrepo, whose obsession with poetry introduced him no glory. Ageing and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet within the shadows. Assembly Yurlady, a teenage woman from humble roots, and serving to her domesticate her expertise brings some mild to his days, however dragging her into the world of poets is probably not the way in which.
Finest Screenplay went to Pillion, the debut characteristic from British filmmaker Harry Lighton. The movie stars Harry Melling as a timid younger homosexual man named Colin who comes into his sexuality when a biker named Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) takes him on as his sexual submissive.
Finest Director went to Palestinian filmmakers Tarzan and Arab Nasser for As soon as Upon a Time in Gaza.
This 12 months’s jury was presided over by UK director, screenwriter, and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, who was joined by French-Swiss director and screenwriter Louise Courvoisier, Croatian director of the Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam Vanja Kaludjercic, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter Roberto Minervini, and Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.