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 El Viaje Films, based in Spain’s Canary Islands, the social-issue themed murder mystery stars Alfredo Castro.
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Thierry Lenouvel’s Paris-based Cine-Sud Promotion and Argentina’s Gema Films, headed by Gema Juárez Allen, have also boarded a third Quijote Films title, dark dramedy “To Die on Your Feet.” It is directed by Chile’s María Paz González, whose spirited “Lina From Lima” won awards at the Oslo Films From the South, the Valdivia and Fribourg festivals.
