Berlin-based gross sales outfit M-Enchantment has picked up worldwide rights to David Pablos’ “On the Street” (“En El Camino”). The movie, a daring, tender Mexican highway film, could have its world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition‘s Horizons part. 

“On the Street” follows Veneno, a rebellious younger drifter who typically sleeps with truck drivers by roadside diners. Whereas in pressing want of a trip, he meets Muñeco, a personal, hard-edged driver. Veneno convinces Muñeco to take him deep into the hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking throughout the north of Mexico. As they journey collectively and an sudden intimacy builds between them, shadows from Veneno’s previous resurface, placing each their lives in danger. The movie stars newcomer Victor Miguel Prieto and Osvaldo Sánchez (“Pedro Páramo”). 

Pablos is understood for movies akin to “Dance of the 41” and “The Chosen Ones,” each produced by Pablo Cruz, in addition to directing the primary 4 episodes of Amazon’s Western sequence “The Head of Joaquín Murrieta.” “The Chosen Ones” performed main festivals akin to Cannes’s Un Sure Regard and San Sebastián’s Horizontes Latinos, happening to land a Spanish Academy Goya Award nomination for Greatest Ibero-American Movie. 

The director highlights the “heteronormative, hyper-masculine” settings of “On the Street,” a movie that “explores the protagonists’ battle to specific their feelings, formed by a tradition of machismo that impacts each their social and intimate lives.”

“I used to be drawn to the thought of telling a narrative infused with homoeroticism throughout the world of truckers, the place their distinctive adventures, the visible attract of that surroundings, and its brutality are proven — but additionally the heat discovered within the brotherhood that emerges amongst males on the highway,” added Pablos. “I feel it’s a becoming setting to speak about masculinity and suppression by way of Veneno and Muñeco — the 2 leads — damaged characters who, in opposition to all odds, discover refuge in one another.”

Pablos added he’s “delighted” to be working “hand-in-hand” with M-Enchantment. “Not solely as a result of they strongly join with the movie (and imagine in it), but additionally as a result of they know easy methods to place queer themed movies and pay detailed consideration to each a part of the working course of.”

Producer Inna Payán added: “The movie pays tribute to these employees we regularly see solely as obstacles on the highway — the truckers we cross by day by day however hardly ever take into consideration, their lives, or their struggles. Males with needs, loves, ache, and worries. This can be a story of two lonely souls who discover one another and fall in love in a hostile panorama.” 

Maren Kroymann, managing director of M-Enchantment, mentioned it “fell in love” with this “untypical love story” in addition to “its tenderness, gorgeous cinematography, and deeply human protagonists.” “We’re thrilled to collaborate with David Pablos and the manufacturing staff, whose resilience and sensitivity shine by way of each body.”

“On the Street” is produced by Payan’s Animal de Luz (“La Jaula de Oro”) in co-production with La Corriente del Golfo, headed by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, The Maestros Cine, EFD Studios, Terminal Movies and Producciones Año Bisiesto.

Producers embrace Payan, Luis Salinas, Luna and Enrique Nava. The movie was produced by way of the Mexican tax incentive Eficine.