New Delhi, May 24 -- 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,' the first feature by Chilean director Diego Cespedes, won the Cannes Film Festival's second-tier Un Certain Regard category on Friday evening.

The film set in the early 1980s centres around a queer family in Chile and the onset of the AIDS epidemic.

While accepting the prize, Cespedes said that the award celebrates existence "even when it makes others uncomfortable".

"This award doesn't celebrate perfection. It celebrates that fear, that stubbornness to exist just as we are, even when it makes others uncomfortable," he said.

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