On the Road

En el camino

Director: David Pablos
Country: Mexico

German Premiere
2025 | 93 min. | Spanish
Subtitles: German, English

Cast_ Víctor Prieto, Osvaldo Sánchez Screenplay_ David Pablos Camera_ Ximena Amann Producer_ Inna Payán, Luis Salinas , Diego Luna, Enrique Nava Rights_ Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH

Powerful, queer, sexually explicit and poetic – a winner at Venice. A road movie 2.0 that breaks with traditional notions of masculinity.

Veneno, a mysterious rebel, travels from one rest stop to the next in order to sleep with lorry drivers. Urgently needing to move on, he meets Muñeco, a driver who seems particularly hardened. Surprisingly, Veneno is able to talk Muñeco into taking him to the hyper-masculine world of truckers in northern Mexico. As they travel together, a surprising intimacy develops between these two dissimilar men. But Veneno’s past still holds him in its clutches. The lives of both men are at stake.

A wildly poetic romance between two men in a world that is hostile to them.

Director

David Pablos is a multiple award-winning writer-director from Mexico. He attended Columbia University and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. His most successful works include ›Dance of the 41‹ (2021), ›The Chosen Ones‹ (2015) and ›The Head of Joaquín Murrieta‹ (2023), a western series.

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