"Set in 1982, 11-year-old Lidia (newcomer Tamara Cortés) is coming of age in a mining town in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The young girl is the baby in a chosen family of LGBTQ+ performers, all of whom care fiercely for her. But Lidia is nestled under the loving Flamingo's wing (played by Matías Catalán) and within the matriarchal care of Mama Boa (Paula Dinamarca)."
"The queer performers stage nightly shows for the miners at the local cantina until whispers begin to spread of a mysterious, deadly disease. In search of someone to blame, the town turns on this queer family and theorises the disease is transmitted through a gaze shared between men in love, and there is no known cure."
""What's happening right now in the world, with this new fascism, is because we don't look each other in the eye," Céspedes says to PinkNews. "Pro individualism, and we just forget that we have someone in front of us. When you see another person in the eye, you can understand if she's suffering, if she's happy, she has a weird feeling that she needs to tell you, you can understand all that stuff, but we miss that, and that makes the gaze a very poetic thing.""
Set in 1982 in a mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert, 11-year-old Lidia grows up within a chosen family of LGBTQ+ performers. Mama Boa and the Flamingo provide matriarchal care while the group stages nightly cantina shows for miners. As rumors spread about a mysterious deadly disease, the town turns against the queer family and searches for someone to blame. The disease is framed as being transmitted through a gaze shared between men in love, with no known cure. Desire becomes monstrous through striking imagery, while the film emphasizes how looking into another person’s eyes can reveal suffering, happiness, and unspoken needs.
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