May, 2025: No prizes were given to Neeraj Ghaywan's "Homebound," India's sole submission in the Un Certain Regard category. Earlier in the week, the movie received a standing ovation that lasted nine minutes.
Paula Dinamarca, Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, Diego Céspedes, Pedro Muñoz, and Francisco Díaz at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival's "La Misteriosa Mirada Del Flamenco" (Flamingo's Mysterious Gaze) photocall at the Palais des Festivals
At the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, Paula Dinamarca, Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, Diego Céspedes, Pedro Muñoz, and Francisco Díaz participated in the photocall for "La Misteriosa Mirada Del Flamenco" (Flamingo's Mysterious Gaze) at the Palais des Festivals. Image Source: Getty Images
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, the debut film by Chilean director Diego Céspedes, defeated a number of well-known competitors to take first place in the Un Certain Regard category of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The jury commended the character-driven drama for its daring and unorthodox storytelling, which takes place in a transgender commune in Chile in the early years of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
The film was characterized as "raw and strong and yet humorous and wild" by the jury, which was presided over by British director Molly Manning Walker. In accepting the prize, Céspedes stated that "all the angry lovers who just wanted to love like everybody else" served as the inspiration for the movie.