It was, however, the debut of Pierre Le Gall, a French filmmaker and screenwriter, whose ‘Flesh and Fuel that both excited and intrigued us most.  Set in the world of long-distance truck drivers who spend all their time on the motorways of France and Europe.  The few truckers who are gay know where the odd cruising areas are located en route, and it’s at one of these that Étienne (Alexis Manenti), gets interrupted twice by the cops and hustles back to his cab with his anonymous pick up (played by Julian Świeżewski)

NO SPOILERS HERE, but you can get the sense from the trailer below that the story develops into something that neither the two men, nor we. can imagine. It’s a delightful, nuanced film with its plot outside of the norm.  It came as no surprise to us that after the film had its world premiere at the Critics’ Week section of the Festival, it won the inaugural Queer Palm Revelation Prize for a first-time director and was nominated for the Caméra d’Or.   Watch This Space