John Lloyd Cruz won the Boccalino d'Oro (Golden Jug Award) for best actor (Best Actor) for his performance in Lav Diaz's film Essential Truths of the Lake on Friday afternoon at the 76th Locarno Film Festival (LFF) in Switzerland.
Along with John Lloyd in the said movie are Hazel Orencio, Shaina Magdayao, Bart Guingona and Agot Isidro.
Essential Truths of the Lake is the story of a man who, in the face of bloody murders and the senseless lies of an administration, continues his struggle to solve a fifteen-year-old case around a gray landscape and a fathomless lake. It became a cross he could barely carry but still dragged it on.
John Lloyd is the second Filipino actor to win Best Actor at Locarno... Hazel Orencio won Best Actress here in 2014 for the movie Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon, also a work by Lav Diaz.
