HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi 2021)

[Chris Knipp]

April 30, 2022.. The San Francisco Film Festival has announced its Golden Gate awards, including:
GGA Critics-New Directors Award winner:
Hit the Road, Panah Panahi (Iran)

Good choice!

The New Directors jurors were Vulture and New York Magazine film critic Alison Willmore, senior editor and critic for Rolling Stone David Fear, former A.V. Club film editor and now founder of The Reveal Substack Scott Tobias, member of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Zaki Hasan and freelance film critic Jourdain Searles.

[Chris Knipp]

July 29, 2022: The Guardian has just published an appreciative review by chief film critic Peter Bradshaw of HIT THE ROAD, recently released in the UK.

Peter Bradshaw's review

Linked to a July 21 Guardian interview with Panah Panihi by Phil Hoad.


PANAH PANAHI [GUARDIAN PHOTO]