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HIT THE ROAD
JADDE KHAKI

• Director: Panah Panahi
• IRAN / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 93’ / Persian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Panah Panahi
• Director of Photography: Amin Jafari
• Editing: Ashkan Mehri, Amir Etminan
• Music: Payman Yazdanian
• Cast: Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simi
• Producer: Panah Panahi, Mastaneh Mohajer
• Production Co.: JP Production
• World Sales: Celluloid Dreams
• Turkish Rights: Mars Film

A chaotic, tender family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape, but to where? In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, but is it really broken? Mom tries to laugh when she’s not holding back tears. The kid keeps exploding into choreographed car karaoke. All of them are fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others’ nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet. They have left Teheran for the north, towards the Turkish border, but it is like they left life itself back. A beautiful, inventive, occasionally funny, touching and heart-wrenching story, Hit the Road was is the debut feature by Panah Panahi, the great filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s son, and premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival within the Directors’ Fortnight section.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.