Still Voices Short Film Festival

The summer of the electric lion

Hidden in a house far from the city, Alonso accompanies his dear sister, Daniela. She expects to become the seventh wife of El León, a prophet who (according to stories) electrocutes when touch him.

Director Bio

Diego Céspedes graduated as a Filmmaker from the University of Chile in 2017. In 2015, during the third year of his career, photography and editing of the short film NON CASTUS received special mention from the jury at the Locarno Festival and selection in the festivals of Rotterdam, Havana, SANFIC, Valdivia, among others. In 2017 he writes and directs his first short film EL VERANO DEL LÉON ELÉCTRICO who won the First Prize Cinefondation, Festival de Cannes.