German Film Festival with special guest Faraz Shariat and reviews of The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo and Mother Mary

About this episode

This episode features an interview with director Faraz Shariat and reviews of recent queer films including 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' and 'Mother Mary'.

We went around the world for this Out Takes, featuring some of the latest queer films on offer this May from Chile, Germany and the UK . With the 2026 HSBC German Film Festival back on in Melbourne until May 28, we had the opportunity to speak with director Faraz Shariat about their film ‘Prosecution’ which is one of the featured Australian Premieres in this year’s festival. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2026 Berlinale, ‘Prosecution’ is described an engrossing tale of good versus evil that cleverly combines legal drama and thriller for a powerful and urgent story about the realities of Germany’s judicial system. Our exclusive interview with Faraz Shariat saw us cover a wide range of topics related to the film and its exploration of queerness for the main character. We also reviewed ‘ The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo ‘, an intense and at times fantastical drama written and directed by Diego Céspedes that is streaming now on Mubi. The film unfolds in the early 1980’s in Chile in a dusty mining town nestled in the Atacama Desert, where eleven-year-old Lidia is the only child raised in a household of queer performers working at…

People in this episode

Guest: Faraz Shariat

Topics covered

• queer films
• film festival
• interview
• film reviews
• LGBTQ cinema

Keywords

• queer films
• German Film Festival
• Faraz Shariat
• Prosecution
• film reviews
• LGBTQ
• cinema

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HSBC German Film Festival

Books & works: Prosecution, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Mother Mary

Places: Germany, Chile, UK, Melbourne

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