Diego Céspedes

Diego Céspedes, born January 5, 1995, in Santiago, Chile, is a Chilean director and screenwriter. His short films, El verano del léon eléctrico (The Summer of the Electric Lion) (2018) and Creatures That Melt in the Sun (2022), have won several festival awards. In 2025, he made his feature fil... More

Diego Céspedes, born January 5, 1995, in Santiago, Chile, is a Chilean director and screenwriter. His short films, El verano del léon eléctrico (The Summer of the Electric Lion) (2018) and Creatures That Melt in the Sun (2022), have won several festival awards. In 2025, he made his feature film debut with The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La misteriosa mirada del flamenco), a film selected in the "Un Certain Regard" category at the Cannes Film Festival. It explores sensitive themes such as love, prejudice, and queer resistance against the backdrop of a small mining town in the Chilean desert in the 1980s.