Hit the Road - part of The Home from Home Film Festival, Lancaster

Hit the Road (Iran)

Winner of the Best Feature Film at the 65th BFI London Film Festival, among other major awards, “there is a sparseness to Hit the Road that reveals the intuitiveness of Panahi's filmmaking, his grasp of these characters and how they tug and poke at each other, and his understanding of the ways fear, paranoia, and loss turn us into people we might not like, let alone recognize." We follow a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet….

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