The Miami Film Festival has announced its prize winners after wrapping the 43rd edition of the cinematic event in South Florida.
On the Road (En El Camino), directed by David Pablos, won the festival’s top juried prize, the $10,000 Marimbas Award. The drama-thriller centers on Veneno, a young man “surviving on charm, instinct, and fleeting sexual encounters,” who seeks a way out of the life he’s living. “He finds it in Muñeco when he persuades the trucker to take him north. Together, they enter the insular world of long-haul trucking, where men are expected to be silent and vulnerability is forbidden.”
Osvaldo Sanchez and Victor Prieto Simental star in the film, which won the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It also won Best Film in the Venice Horizons section and two awards at the Morelia International Film
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