{"id":6532,"date":"2025-12-14T06:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:00:08","slug":"on-the-road-to-something-like-home-ramzi-bashours-hot-water-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/on-the-road-to-something-like-home-ramzi-bashours-hot-water-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road to Something Like Home: Ramzi Bashour\u2019s ‘Hot Water’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hot Water<\/em>, premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2026, marks the feature debut of Syrian-American filmmaker Ramzi Bashour. Developed over several years while Bashour participated as a Sundance Fellow from 2022 through 2024, the film arrives with a measured confidence. Films Boutique has acquired international sales rights, with Cinetic Media handling North American sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniel Zolghadri and Lubna Azabal appear in Hot Water by Ramzi Bashour, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Alfonso Herrera Salcedo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Zolghadri and Lubna Azabal appear in Hot Water by Ramzi Bashour, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Alfonso Herrera Salcedo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story begins with a rupture: an American teenager is expelled from his Indiana high school and sets out west with his Lebanese mother. From this spare setup, Hot Water<\/em> unfolds as a contemplative road film, one that treats travel less as escape than as a way of thinking. Bashour\u2019s direction favors accumulation over urgency, allowing expansive landscapes to frame a quieter examination of belonging, education, and the idea of home as something provisional rather than fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lubna Azabal and Daniel Zolghadri bring a natural ease and emotional precision to the central relationship, supported by a grounded turn from Dale Dickey. Together, they move through a version of America defined by distance and difference, where the act of crossing the country becomes a way of reckoning with diasporic histories and personal inheritance. Hot Water<\/em> understands forward motion as something that often leads back to unresolved questions, aligning departure and return with understated insight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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