Blood moon whips up patriarchal hysteria in coming-of-age Cannes movie

“Mi Bestia”, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s parallel segment ACID, follows a 13-year-old Bogota girl grappling with adolescence amid an impending lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth. FRANCE 24 spoke to director Beltrán, whose debut feature offers a visually bold study of patriarchal oppression in her native Colombia.