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202684 minPGdocumentary

Truck Driver

202684 minPGdocumentary

Truck drivers navigate the solitude of the open road, finding moments of joy in motels and tire shops while yearning for distant loved ones.

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Francisco Marise

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Truck drivers navigate the solitude of the open road, finding moments of joy in motels and tire shops while yearning for distant loved ones.

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Francisco Marisedirector

Javier Rebollowriter

Francisco Marisewriter

Synopsis

A hybrid film that paints a collective portrait of people who share a strange dimension of time within the silence of the asphalt wilderness – at motels, on the side of the road, and in tire shops, savoring the pure joy of the present moment while longing for loved ones far away.

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