GGA New Directors Award Winner: Hit the Road
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Meet the new crop of emerging narrative talent as SFFILM presents stellar debut features from around the world and awards their work with this juried competition. Join us for an encore presentation of the GGA New Directors Award Winner.
An eccentric family takes a road trip through sun-drenched Iranian landscapes to a mysterious destination in Panah Panahi’s auspicious first feature. Under normal circumstances, this bunch probably would be rooted at home, with its grumpy patriarch uncomfortable in a full-leg cast. But as the mother worries that they are being followed, the eldest brother pensively drives on, rarely stopping even to stretch. Only the irrepressible younger son, a little boy embracing adventure, enjoys the journey, unaware that his big brother is fleeing trouble. Panahi, the son of auteur Jafar Panahi (The Circle, Festival 2001), makes an assured debut with this gorgeously lensed feature.
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Biographies
The son of Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi, Panah Panahi has worked as an editor, assistant director, and consultant on his father’s recent films. He previously made a short, The First Film (2009). Hit the Road (2021), winner of best film awards at the London and Mar del Plata Film Festivals, is his first feature.