AFM Hidden Gem: ‘Kill the Jockey’ Offers a Surreal Meditation on the Nature of Identity

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• Director Luis Ortega faced numerous rejections while pitching the film's esoteric, dreamlike premise, with one potential title 'Pineapple Head' deemed too out-there to get financed.
• Despite the obstacles, 'Jockey' won the Horizons Award at San Sebastián after premiering at Venice, offering a magical realist exploration of identity where each new persona 'inches closer to the truth' of the protagonist.