The Cannes International Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, which focuses on debut filmmakers and art films, was won by La Misteriosa Mireda del Flamenco (Mysterious Look of Flameňák) by Chilean director Diego Céspedes. The AFP agency informs about it. Among the 20 competitions was the Czech film Karavan by director Zuzana Kirchnerová, who will not bring the prize from the competition section for debut filmmakers.
The winning film from the Chilian-French-Spanish-Belgian co-production tells the pages The festival through the eyes of eleven -year -old Lidie’s story of a group of transvestites living in 1982 in a harsh mining town in Chile. Whose life is tragically affecting AIDS, who are convinced that they can spread by sight. And it is up to Lidia to come to the mystery.
Only thirty -year -old director Cépedes, according to AFP, recalls the dark idea of AIDS as a terrible, unclean and dangerous and dangerous, which he said he also perceived from the attitude of his own mother. That is why he decided to make a story about Transgender’s women, rejected by societies, but happy about being together.
A caravan, a feature debut of screenwriter and director Zuzana Kirchnerová, in front of the audience in Cannes opened the theme of people with mental disabilities and autism. One of the main characters is David, a boy with a mental disability played by David Vodstrstrčil. The representative of the male role, who is a successful athlete, lives with Down syndrome. But in the film he plays a boy with an autism spectrum disorder.
Forty -five -year -old Ester, played by Aňa Geislerová, after years of care for the son of David accepts the invitation of friends to come to Italy. In a foreign environment, however, David is unpredictable and causes problems. Ester does not want to be a nuisance to anyone, so he starts an old caravan and sets off herself with his son on a journey across Italy, and so the poetic road movie begins to freedom, various forms of love, and the desire to start living, not only survive. The caravan will be premiered in cinemas on August 28, 2025.
This year’s 78th year of the Cannes festival will end on Saturday, May 24, when the main prizes will be presented.
