On the Go

TIFF65: Greek Premiere

Milagros (37) stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan (24) seeks solace in Grindr to overcome abandonment issues. Milagros escapes her appointment for single-parent insemination. Jonathan triggers a reunion with a childhood sweetheart. The road and friendship alleviate the disorientation caused to these two friends by the deceptive freedom of the early 21st century. A delirious road movie, full of music, where a mysterious mermaid with a magic crown will set the course of the journey.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro

Script: María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro

Cinematography: Ilton K. do Rosario

Editing: Paola Álvarez, Sergio Jiménez

Sound: Joaquín Pachón, José Tomé

Actors: Julia de Castro, Omar Ayuso, Chacha Huang, Manuel de Blas, Alberto Jo Lee

Production: Jur Jur Productions

Producers: María Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro

Costumes: Guillem Chanza

Production Design: Sofía Alazraki

Make Up: Lucas Margarit

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Spain

Production Year: 2023

Duration: 73'

Contact: Mpm Premium

Awards/Distinctions: Youth Jury Award (Special Mention) – Locarno IFF 2023, Best Feature Film, Best Director – Gijón IFF 2023, Rainbow Spike Award (Special Mention) – Valladolid IFF 2023

María Gisèle Royo

María Gisele Royo has been awarded an Student Academy Award, an Emmy College Student Award and the Premio Fundación Buesa y Extremadocs. María has participated in several international film festivals. In the midst of the economic crisis, María founded an audiovisual production company that has developed since 2011. With it, she has come to present her work at a public hearing in the European Parliament, and at the UNHCR Global Refugee Forum in Geneva. She is currently also teaching in Berlin at the BA and Master of Film at the Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology. For a year, she crossed the Pan-American highway when Google Maps didn’t exist; The On the Go spirit is in her blood.

Filmography

2014 Looking for Coco (doc, co-direction)
2019 Education Without Borders (doc, short)
2023 On the Go (co-direction)

Julia de Castro

Julia de Castro is the founder of De la puríssima, a stage project that toured the world for a decade until its theatrical death directed by Julia herself with 70 musicians and for which she was nominated as best actress for the prestigious Valle Inclán Awards. She has released two albums and written a book on prostitution, La Retorica Delle Puttane, published by the editorial La Fábrica. She boasts of her Avila origins that, without being glamorous, provide her with the mysticism, determination and seriousness of the Saints who inhabited the same walls. It doesn't matter which expression she chooses; music, literature, theatre or cinema, everything that comes from Julia has an interest, especially if it has to do with sex and the female body.