Family Drives Iranian Drama 'Hit the Road'
In 'Hit the Road', which won Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival 2021, the silence between the family members carries the weight of their powerlessness.
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In 'Hit the Road', which won Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival 2021, the silence between the family members carries the weight of their powerlessness.
And the winners are...
Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road wins award for ‘distinctive film-making that captures essence of cinema’
Cannes Film Festival 2021: 'Titane' wins Palme d'Or and all the highlights from the Croisette CNN 3 hrs ago Thomas Page, CNN © Andreas Rentz/Getty Images CANNES, FRANCE - JULY 17: Jury president Spike Lee during the closing ceremony of the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 17, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) French filmmaker Julia Ducournau has become only the second female director to win the Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, for her film "Titane." © JP Production "Hit the Road" by Panah Panahi. In a shock moment, j...
Scene from Hit the Road by Panah Panahi. Courtesy Celluloid Dreams Standing in the check-in queue at LAX, checking that I had my negative PCR test results ready with my passport, I looked up to find a colleague gazing at me, his eyes amused over the line of his mask. “We’re really doing this, huh?” he said. We were. The Air France flight was packed, restrictions to Europe having been lifted for US citizens and residents just three weeks earlier. Eleven hours later we were in Paris, en route to Cannes and a film festival that maybe wasn’t such a great idea, and would almost certai...