Chile’s Quijote Films, behind Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard Fipresci Prize winner “The Settlers,” has tied down a powerful alliance of international partners on “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” the first feature of 2018 Cannes Cinéfondation top winner Diego Céspedes.
An LGBTQ-themed drama, “The Mysterious Gaze” is set in a mining town where a strange illness is said to be transmitted between men who fall in love with each other.
Produced by Quijote Films and France’s Les Valseurs, “The Mysterious Gaze” has now added new partners in Germany’s Weydemann Bros Film, Spain’s Irusoin, Wrong Men in Belgium and France’s Arte+.
Quijote Films has also added Mexico’s Varios Lobos as a co-production partner on Theo Court’s “Three Dark Nights.” Produced by Nasi and Benjamín Domenech and set up as a production between Quijote and…
