Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban is moving ahead with Delivery, a time-travel science-fiction road movie he says is his most personal work to date. Best known for films including The Incident, The Similars and Párvulos, Ezban is developing the project as his sixth feature and will present it at this year’s Frontières International Co-Production Market in Montreal, held during the Fantasia Film Festival.
Written from an original screenplay by Ezban and Christian Cueva, Delivery centers on Adan, a solitary truck driver who has spent more than three decades hauling a trailer along the border highways between Mexico and the United States. His routine is tied to a deeply personal ritual: listening to cassette tapes his father recorded for him when he was a child. After being unexpectedly dismissed from the trucking company he has served for years, Adan reacts impulsively, steals the truck and keeps driving north in an effort to hear every tape he owns, which he considers his most treasured possession.
A border story built around memory and time
During that journey, Adan encounters Nokia, a teenager left behind in a cartel-controlled border town. She also clings to cassettes passed down by her family and dreams of crossing the border to be reunited with them. According to the report, the two are drawn into a journey shaped by fate, or possibly something darker, and the consequences become increasingly serious and complex.
Delivery is being produced by Red Elephant Films, the company run by Ezban and Miriam Mercado, together with Sin Sentido Films, founded by Alejandra Cárdenas and Felicitas Arce. The project is currently 40% financed after qualifying for Mexico’s Eficine tax incentive, and the team is now seeking additional co-producers. The goal is to shoot in the second half of 2027.
Ezban said the screenplay has been in development since 2019 and described the film as the one that best represents him. He also noted that while the story works as a road movie and a time-travel tale set along the Mexico-U.S. border, it is also about contrasts such as planning and spontaneity, routine and adventure, solitude and company, as well as living in the past versus the present. For Ezban, the endless highway provides an ideal setting for a story about time, loneliness and paradoxes.
Source: variety.com
